Correction... Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: > > > > On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:02:05 +0200 > > David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Uh, what? The quoted section tries defining the term "UNIX", not the > > > term "operating system". > > > > Notice the qualification > > [... ITS blah-blah ...] > > > Both quotes indicate that already in the early 80s, "operating system" > > had a broader meaning than merely the "kernel". > > http://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html > (aka Single UNIX Specification) > > ----- > POSIX is an acronym for Portable Operating System Interface. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Although originated to refer to the original IEEE Std 1003.1-1988, the > ^^^^^^^^^^ ^ > > [note that Shell and Utilities is .2] ^^
Err. -3. After XBD (Base Definitions) + XSH (System Interfaces) and prior to (non-normative) Rationale (-4) volume of POSIX.1. > > name POSIX more correctly refers to a family of related standards: IEEE > Std 1003.n (where n is a number) and the parts of ISO/IEC 9945. The term > POSIX was originally used as a synonym for IEEE Std 1003.1-1988. A > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > preferred term for that standard, POSIX.1, emerged. This maintained the > advantages of readability of the symbol ``POSIX'' without being ambiguous > with the POSIX family of standards. > > For a full listing of the project numbers see PASC Standing Document SD11. > > The name POSIX was suggested by Richard Stallman. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVS > > ------ > First released in 1974, MVS was later renamed by IBM, first to MVS/XA > (eXtended Architecture), next to MVS/ESA (Enterprise Systems > Architecture), then to OS/390 when UNIX System Services (USS) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > were added, and finally to z/OS when 64-bit support was added on the > zSeries models. Its core remains fundamentally the same operating > system. By design, programs written for MVS can still run on z/OS > without modification. > ------ > > http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3470.htm > > ------ > UNIX 95 > > Company Name: IBM Corporation > > Product Name: z/OS V1R2 or later with: Security Server and z/OS > V1R2 or later C/C++ Compiler on IBM zSeries Processors that > support z/OS Version 1 Release 2 or later > ------ > > And regarding [Guh-NÜ-slash-]Linux, POSIX.1 is basically kernel+[g]libc. Apart from shell and utilities, that is. regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
