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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: Fix to Comet Halley program
Message-ID: <10037@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 10:13:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 10:13:41 1985
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> This is what I really love about Punix..... so many standards! Please,
> lord, give me VMS or some other adult system so we can share code.

Sure, everyone has a VAX.

There really is only a single established UNIX standard,
considering that /usr/group, ANSI C, and the System V Interface
Definition are in very close agreement.  The other significant
UNIX variant is 4.2BSD, for which a System V compatibility package
is freely available (VAX & Gould/SEL; other ports in progress).
At the application C source code level, there is a very high degree
of portability compared for example with trying to run VMS Fortran
code on any other system.