26 Jun
2024
26 Jun
'24
9:53 p.m.
Warner Losh wrote in
<CANCZdfpSPE0yhgyFch4JDUC1JW17V4pz7cZ2aGpDk+chsY93ig(a)mail.gmail.com>:
|I'll add that POSIX, as we know it today (and really since at least 2000)
|is a collaboration between The Open Group, IEEE Std 1003.1-XXXX and ISO/IEC
|9945:YYYY (collectively known as the Austin Group, though why "Austin" I
|cannot say).
|
|So these days, it's standardized by "both" IEEE and ANSI (in the form of
|ISO, of which ANSI is effectively a member).
The explanation is part of the standard
1
The Austin Group is named after the location of the inaugural
meeting held at the IBM facility in Austin, Texas in September
1998.
2
The name POSIX was suggested by Richard Stallman. It is expected
to be pronounced with the first two syllables as in positive,
not poh-six, or other variations. The pronunciation has been
published in an attempt to promulgate a standardized way of
referring to a standard operating system interface.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)