27 Jun
2024
27 Jun
'24
5:56 p.m.
I don't recall rms being involved, certainly not in the name. -jsq
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 4:21 AM Eric E. Bowles via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
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:
and
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 > 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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