From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jun 16 20:35:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27032 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 20:35:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.zilker.net ([207.8.127.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA27027 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 20:35:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.8.8/8.8.3) id WAA12588; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:35:14 -0500 (CDT) To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unix98 References: <3.0.3.32.19980616084412.008fd418@popd.ix.netcom.com> From: Dave Marquardt Date: 16 Jun 1998 22:34:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: Dale Phillips's message of "Tue, 16 Jun 1998 08:44:12 -0700" Message-ID: <85vhq0g0qh.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 19.16 - "Lille" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dale Phillips writes: > What is unix98? Well, it's standard built on UNIX 95, which was built on XPG4, which was built on POSIX, which was built on ANSI C and existing UNIX practice. Whew! > Pardon my dumb question but does the www.opengroup.org > work with the *BSD and Linux camp at all? No, why should they? UNIX 98 branding is much more interesting to commercial UNIX vendors than to "free" UNIX vendors. -Dave (who did UNIX 95 sockets work for IBM's AIX) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message