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From: housel@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter S. Housel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: POSIX and the future of MINIX
Message-ID: <14779@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 25 Aug 89 01:09:20 GMT
References: <3044@ast.cs.vu.nl> <1989Aug24.162417.115@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Aug24.162417.115@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <3044@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl () writes:
>>All in all, if you are interested in the future of MINIX of the future of
>>UNIX, I highly recommend ordering and reading P1003.1.  I just ordered
>>the P1003.2 and P1003.3 draft standards myself, so I don't know how good they
>>are...
>Beware that 1003.2 may still be somewhat changeable; they've been trying to
>stabilize it, but the fact is that they tackled a huge job with 1003.2, and
>it's resisting being rushed.  That is, current drafts are not necessarily
>close approximations to the final standard.
>
>I second Andy's recommendation of 1003.1; it's pretty well done.

	How does one get a copy of P1003.2 and P1003.3? Through Global
Engineering Documents, perhaps? If so, for how much?

	Given prices I have seen quoted for draft standards from GED,
1003.2 and 1003.3 may be out of the price range of most students
and other casual participants for the moment.

	I haven't seen the original article, so this may be redundant,
but IEEE Std. 1003.1-1988 is available from IEEE Service Center, 445
Hoes Lane, P.O.B. 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 USA (or IEEE Canada,
7061 Yonge Street, Thornhill, Ontario, L3T 2A6 Canada). Phone orders
(from within the continental US) are accepted at 1-800-678-IEEE.
The 1003.1 standard is product number SH12211, and costs $32.00 ($16.00
for one copy for IEEE members). $4.00 S+H for orders under $50.00.

-Peter S. Housel-	housel@ecn.purdue.edu	...!pur-ee!housel