Keep in mind that originally POSIX and UNIX were different. IBM even documented
the discrepancies between the two. AFAIK IEEE POSIX has been swallowed by the
successor to X/OPEN and you now only need a single certification, but that
wasn't the case at the time of the original MVSOE.
--
Shmuel
john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) writes:
> Not as I was told. U.S. Government said, basically, you can only bid a
> POSIX compliant (and branded?) system for any I.T. purchase. To keep their
> business, IBM grafted OpenEdition (original name) onto MVS. As time goes
> on, it does get a
On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:29:37 -0600, John McKown wrote:
>>
>> RFE: We want UNIX.
>
>Not as I was told. U.S. Government said, basically, you can only bid a
>POSIX compliant (and branded?) system for any I.T. purchase. To keep their
>business, IBM grafted OpenEdition (original name) onto MVS. As
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Paul Gilmartin <
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 16:58:15 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
> >
> >... I would pick gmake 9/10 because it's pervasive and more
> >portable. If you work with open source software on z/OS
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
> I imagine:
>
> RFE: We want UNIX.
>
> IBM: Be more specific.
>
> Both: (After much deliberation) Single UNIX specification.
>
> And so it went. There's no formal specification of GNU Linux.
>
> Sigh.
some of the CTSS (IBM
