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From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: POSIX, COSE and 386BSD - How do they fit in?
Keywords: POSIX, COSE, 386BSD
Message-ID: <Sep.10.02.39.55.1993.18514@geneva.rutgers.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 93 06:39:58 GMT
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kjb@cgl.citri.edu.au (Kendall Bennett) writes:

>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?

As far as I can tell, all current Unix standards are consistent with
POSIX.  POSIX seems to standardize the basic traditional Unix
system calls, subroutines, and utilities.  COSE seems to be oriented
at the next layer up, i.e. application-level architecture. It will
involve GUI issues, NIS+, and various things of that sort.