[COFF] Commonality of 60s-80s Print Standards

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On 2023-08-17 18:11, segaloco via COFF wrote (in part):
 > Am I getting into apples vs oranges here?

Yes.  In some areas (such as crypto, whence I came), if you did
not follow the standards, then you would not interoperate.  There were
no testing labs for compliance (as there was for FIPS, for example).
I recall compliance tests for ANSI C but that stopped with the
adoption of ISO C (if my aging memory is correct).

S.