SCO doesn't sell UNIX

Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR allbery at NCoast.ORG
Sun Dec 16 13:35:19 AEST 1990


As quoted from <1990Dec15.021924.2866 at kithrup.COM> by sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan):
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| In article <1990Dec14.035940.28832 at NCoast.ORG> allbery at ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
| >That isn't true, as far as I've been able to learn.  I don't know if it's a
| 
| It *is* required by FIPS, which is a superset of POSIX.  That is the only
| reason it's there.
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So I found out, later.  Cf. my snide remark about the Federal Ignorant
Programming Standard and FORTRAN.  (I've not used Ada, but it has at least
*some* redeeming qualities compared to FORTRAN, at least for the kind of
programs I write.)

If I didn't know better, I'd call that a cheap ploy to make System V
undesireable for FIPS work....

++Brandon

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