whither UNIX (Really about "standards")

[Ian F. Darwin, Toronto, Canada <ian@utcsstat.uucp>]

There is currently a UNIX standardisation effort well underway.
The /usr/group UNIX standards committee has a standard for the
system interface (mainly sections 2 and 3 of the manual set)
which is in final draft stage at this time. The committee has,
as you suggested, representation from major vendors (at least
Fortune, Pyramid, Microsoft, ITT, Bell Labs, Plexus, DEC, CRDS,
HP, RLG, RM, SUN, ITS, WHitesmiths, HCR, Mark WIlliams.
UniSoft is the only major port-provider not on the list of names
in the version of the Draft which I have).

Their current work is on the "System Interface" standard, but they
have plans for a C standard and a user interface standard
eventually. The System Interface is the one of most concernt to
those writing commercial applications, so that's where they went
first.