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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: SVID (was: Submission for comp-unix-microport)
Message-ID: <294@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 89 13:50:46 GMT
References: <8901082322.AA19653@handel.TOLERANT> <17801@gatech.edu>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <17801@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
 >>Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP ()
 >>Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
 >>
 >>Thank God no! It is still SCO Xenix, but it has been somewhat extended
 >>to be able to run 386-Unix binaries. It is supposed to become more SVID
 >>compliant too I believe.
 >>
 >
 >Point of clarification:  please correct me if I am wrong, but my
 >understanding of SVID is that you are either SVID compliant or you are
 >not.  Being 'more compliant' is like being 'more pregnant'.
 >
 >Is this not correct?

Well, complying with a standard is really not quite the same as being
pregnant. Apart from AT&T's contractual language and interpretation, it
is well possible to call something "more" or "less" compliant, or maybe
a better terminology would be "closer to" the standard. So, for example,
System V is closer to POSIX than Version 7; the merged UNIX/XENIX release
is closer to SVID than previous XENIX releases.

If you do wish to use pregnancy as an example, a woman in her eighth month
is closer to giving birth than a woman in her second week, even though
they are both equally pregnant.

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