The Posix 1003.1 trial use standard for a Unix system interface will be about three months late in being approved as an IEEE standard. At the beginning of this year, projections were made for the end of the year but the 1003.1 working group encountered a number of unforseen minor tidying up problems that have […]
The Posix 1003.1 trial use standard for a Unix system interface will be about three months late in being approved as an IEEE standard. At the beginning of this year, projections were made for the end of the year but the 1003.1 working group encountered a number of unforseen minor tidying up problems that have taken longer than anticipated to fix, and the standard is now promised for March 1988. The International Standards Organisation has approved the initiation of a new work item to address Posix, and has set up a working group on it. And it has also squashed an attempt made by a group of Japanese manufacturers to develop a rival standard to Posix. System Software Interface – the Japanese standards group – wanted to develop a Unix standard that covered more ground than Posix, but it was deemed to be too similar to the Posix effort to be given support by ISO.
