27 Jun
2024
27 Jun
'24
2:20 p.m.
Just another reference, this one from the Open Group:
https://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html
POSIX™ 1003.1 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ Version 1.18)
Q0. What is POSIX? What is POSIX.1?
[...] The name POSIX was suggested by Richard Stallman. It is expected to be
pronounced pahz-icks,
as in positive, not poh-six, or other variations.
--eric
On Jun 27, 2024, at 10:11, Greg 'groggy'
Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, 26 June 2024 at 20:44:12 -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
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?
Greg
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