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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: time for comp.unix.bsd.386
Message-ID: <6XQIKDA@taronga.com>
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
References: <1992Aug27.093740.29039@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <1992Aug27.122244.23194@prism.poly.edu> <1992Aug27.091607.12110@resonex.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 12:52:48 GMT
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In article <1992Aug27.091607.12110@resonex.com> michael@resonex.com (Michael Bryan) writes:
>Personally, I rather like Peter's recent suggestion of comp.os.posix.*
Except that "posix" itself is problematical. For example, there are real
unix-like systems that aren't posix compliant (386BSD, for example) and
there are completely un-unixy POSIX environments (Open VMS). From what I
can tell, most normal UNIX programs will crash and burn on Open VMS (for
example, anything that expects to access files with specific names)...
I think this hierarchy would be more useful if the name implied "unix like"
not "posix conforming".
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