27 Jun
2024
27 Jun
'24
5:58 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 9:47 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com>
wrote:
On Wednesday, 26 June 2024 at 20:44:12 -0400, Clem
Cole wrote:
A way to verify this would be to look for attendee lists from early
POSIX meetings, though I'm having trouble locating them. My initial
search turned up this document, a 1995 retrospective from Hal
Jespersen, where he credits Stallman for coining the name "POSIX":
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/210308.210313.
Still, that's not a primary source, and it's mentioned only in
passing. I trust Clem's recollection more.
Incidentally, and relevant to an earlier question, "why go through
IEEE for the standard?" that's addressed in Jespersen's reminiscence.
- Dan C.
rms had nothing to do with the name posix. I
have no idea where that
comment came from.
At the very least, from rms himself:
https://stallman.org/articles/posix.html
There's a reference to this page in the Wikipedia page on POSIX.
The p1003 committee for Ieee was the portable
operating system standard and
at the time adding ix was the norm. POSIX became the term we all used to
refer to the work we doing. Rms was not involved in any way
rms suggests that he was involved in the committee? Not true? Maybe
a different, related committee?