[TUHS] Origin of the name POSIX (was: ANSI (C) vs IEEE (POSIX) Standards Body Selection)

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

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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