Garbage. Rms was never at any early IEEE meeting that I was at - you could smell him a mile away as he rarely bathed. I certainly knew him in those days. I also have an early draft with all participants named and he is not one of them!!

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On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 9:11 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@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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