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From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
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References: <36djkn$nm8@girtab.usc.edu> <36qeaf$jt4@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <MICHAELV.94Oct4095313@mindbender.headcandy.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 02:47:58 GMT
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In article <MICHAELV.94Oct4095313@mindbender.headcandy.com>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
>This should be taken with a large bucket of salt, however (as Terry
>Lambert points out), since none of the systems have had an official
>POSIX verification suite run on them.

Not to mention that in practical terms POSIX still means very little.

Most code is still written straight to System V or BSD semantics.