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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Notes on the *new* FreeBSD V1.1 VM system
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References: <2l2mmf$me9@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <2l6i3n$rco@u.cc.utah.edu> <CM4Mq4.70D@kithrup.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 07:30:18 GMT
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In article <CM4Mq4.70D@kithrup.com> sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>In article <2l6i3n$rco@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes:
>
>POSIX is not an operating system.  POSIX is an interface to an operating
>system.  It is not necessarily the only interface to any given OS.  But,
>then, it was never intended to be.
>

The above is true however if the programmer finds itself using local 
interfaces to accomplish the functionality not cover by posix then
what good is it?

	Later,
	Amancio


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