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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
Date: 7 Oct 1994 06:14:35 GMT
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In article <36qeaf$jt4@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> mbandy@superdec.uni.uiuc.edu (Harf) writes:
] plin@girtab.usc.edu (Po-Han Lin) writes:

[ ... ]

] >4) more compliance to POSIX (I think standards are good, or am I wrong)
] 
] 	Linux is more compliant to POSIX.

Prove it.  What output did you get when you ran NIST PCTS and/or VSX?

I think any claims of standards conformance without going through a
validation suite and acceptance process is specious no matther which
group the claims come from.

Same thing goes for iBCS2 or other ABI conformance, for that matter.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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