I seem to remember that MVS beat at least one of AIX, SunOS/Solaris and HP-UX to POSIX compliance.
On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 at 14:53, Jay Maynard < [email protected]> wrote: > And it's a remarkable fact that MVS was the first non-Unix to get POSIX > certification... > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM Matt Hogstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I had dinner with Jeff Nick (IBM Fellow for Z) back in ’99. He shared > > that Open Edition was initially started to get Posix compliance in MVS as > > it was a requirement for Federal data centers to only support Posix > > compliant OS’. I don’t think anyone envisioned the criticality of that > new > > subsystem to the longevity of the z/OS platform. > > > > I think the incorporation of containers in z/OS, zCX and K8s are the next > > revolution in z/OS. > > > > Long live z/OS. > > > > > On Jan 22, 2025, at 7:09 AM, Mark Jacobs < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I remember installing it in the 1995-1996 time range right after I > began > > working for Time Customer Service. > > > > > > Mark Jacobs > > > > > > Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. > > > > > > GPG Public Key - > > > https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&[email protected] > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > -- > Jay Maynard > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
