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From: kjb@cgl.citri.edu.au (Kendall Bennett)
Subject: POSIX, COSE and 386BSD - How do they fit in?
Message-ID: <kjb.747366876@manda.cgl.citri.edu.au>
Keywords: POSIX, COSE, 386BSD
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Organization: Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute
Date:  7 Sep 93 01:54:36 GMT
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I have been reading recently in Australia about the flurry of activity 
that has appeared because of the interest in the Common Operating Systems
Environment (COSE) proposed by 90% of the Unix vendor market. COSE is
supposedly a move to standardise on the Unix application programming
API across the board, so that you can write an app on your DEC workstation,
and compile and run in on a Sun without changing a line of source code.
Sounds like a great move to me, but I was wondering how POSIX fits into
this scheme? Isn't this what POSIX was intended to do anyway? Is POSIX
and integral part of COSE, or is it something separate?

Then of course, how does this fit in with the different variants of 
operating systems, such as BSD and System V? Does this mean that System V,
BSD and so on are dead, and all new operating systems will be COSE
(although they still may be SysV or BSD internally)? How does this fit in
with 386BSD? Are plans underway to make 386BSD into a COSE compliant 
operating system, so we can compile and run all those lovely commercial
Unix apps on our tiny machines at home?

Post feedback to news, rather than via email as I am sure others will be
interested in your response...

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