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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Dec16.023519.9152@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 16 Dec 90 02:35:19 GMT
References: <1990Dec08.140730.9747@digibd.com> <1990Dec14.035940.28832@NCoast.ORG> <1990Dec15.021924.2866@kithrup.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <1990Dec15.021924.2866@kithrup.COM> by sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan):
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| In article <1990Dec14.035940.28832@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
| >That isn't true, as far as I've been able to learn.  I don't know if it's a
| 
| It *is* required by FIPS, which is a superset of POSIX.  That is the only
| reason it's there.
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So I found out, later.  Cf. my snide remark about the Federal Ignorant
Programming Standard and FORTRAN.  (I've not used Ada, but it has at least
*some* redeeming qualities compared to FORTRAN, at least for the kind of
programs I write.)

If I didn't know better, I'd call that a cheap ploy to make System V
undesireable for FIPS work....

++Brandon

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