21 Jan
2017
21 Jan
'17
4:43 p.m.
On 20 January 2017 at 19:25, Tim Bradshaw <tfb(a)tfeb.org> wrote:
On 20 Jan 2017, at 19:38, Nemo
<cym224(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As they say, 'ave a laugh, guv:
http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=43781
You have not understood the problem I was describing I think:
I did understand. My response was to your comment about Linux and
standards in the same sentence. (This was humour, indicated by the
phrase 'ave a laugh.)
[...] such platforms would make porting things more
easy, but they would
also be mostly indistinguishable from each other and thus eliminate most of
the competition between vendors.
Well, I believe that was the original intent of POSIX as far as the
Pentagon was concerned. It (and other countries) wanted source that
could be recompiled/run on any POSIX box.
N.