Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: jones@uv4.eglin.af.mil (Calvin Jones, III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: UNIX "requirements" Message-ID: <13172@baldrick.udel.EDU> Date: 7 Mar 90 16:46:50 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 17 "Mike (Real Amiga have keyboard garages" writes: > If you do, I suggest look at how AUX is doing, and how the PC-based > Unix systems are doing. The answer is "not very well", sales being > mostly limited to Universities that like the idea of running Mac & > Unix software on the same box, and to technogeeks who _really_ want a > Unix box in their house. That total just isn't a very big market, not > compared to what you can put in office & homes if you don't try and > sell enough hardware to run Unix. It's big enough to be worth doing, > but it won't keep the machine alive. I fear that this is changing. The DoD now requires that specifications use in the procurement of general purpose computers of all sizes call for a POSIX compliant operation system. POSIX is defined in FIPS 151, and defines a standard operating system interface and environment based on the AT&T System V Interface Definition (SVID) to support application software portability at the software source code level.