<div dir="auto">I don't recall rms being involved, certainly not in the name. -jsq</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 4:21 AM Eric E. Bowles via TUHS <<a href="mailto:tuhs@tuhs.org">tuhs@tuhs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Just another reference, this one from the Open Group:<br>
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<a href="https://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.opengroup.org/austin/papers/posix_faq.html</a><br>
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POSIX™ 1003.1 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ Version 1.18)<br>
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Q0. What is POSIX? What is POSIX.1?<br>
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[...] The name POSIX was suggested by Richard Stallman. It is expected to be pronounced pahz-icks, <br>
as in positive, not poh-six, or other variations.<br>
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--eric<br>
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> On Jun 27, 2024, at 10:11, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <<a href="mailto:grog@lemis.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">grog@lemis.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Wednesday, 26 June 2024 at 20:44:12 -0400, Clem Cole wrote:<br>
>> rms had nothing to do with the name posix. I have no idea where that<br>
>> comment came from.<br>
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> At the very least, from rms himself:<br>
> <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/posix.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://stallman.org/articles/posix.html</a><br>
> There's a reference to this page in the Wikipedia page on POSIX.<br>
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>> The p1003 committee for Ieee was the portable operating system standard and<br>
>> at the time adding ix was the norm. POSIX became the term we all used to<br>
>> refer to the work we doing. Rms was not involved in any way<br>
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> rms suggests that he was involved in the committee? Not true? Maybe<br>
> a different, related committee?<br>
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