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

[Ron Natalie]

RMS is an odiferous pedophile.
Every time I was within six feet of him I needed to go shower.



------ Original Message ------
>From "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at lemis.com>
To "Clem Cole" <clemc at ccc.com>
Cc "Alan Coopersmith" <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>; "Marc Rochkind" 
<mrochkind at gmail.com>; tuhs at tuhs.org
Date 6/26/24, 9:11:00 PM
Subject [TUHS] Origin of the name POSIX (was: ANSI (C) vs IEEE (POSIX) 
Standards Body Selection)

>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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