Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:44:41 -0700 | From | Eric Weigle <> | Subject | Re: is KERNEL developement finished, yet ??? |
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>>>Unix (and Linux) developers are far too concerned with clinging to the >>>30-year-old outdated POSIX standard, which creates numerous problems when >>>trying to advance new features. >>Er, 16-year-old maybe? >Wow! I thought I really knew what I was talking about, but you've really >convinced me to see things you're way! >[snip] "In early 1985, the /usr/group committee was merged with the newly formed IEEE POSIX Working Group (POSIX stands for Portable Operating Systems for Computing Environments) and the /usr/group standard was adopted as a first draft."
UN*Xen were around for 15 years before anybody was brave (or stupid :) enough to really standardize. The first drafts of these standards are only 16-18 years old.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-3/unix-standards.html
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