From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada) Date: 1996/04/08 Message-ID: <4kb1l1$ajm@solutions.solon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 146353374 references: <828903918snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover) reply-to: seebs@solon.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-04-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert Dewar wrote: >This surely must be wrong, either Unix is a trade mark or it is not. Consider: Wednesday(TM) is a small, homicidal girl with long hair. Wednesday is two days from when I write this. UNIX is a trademark. Unix is not really. Rather, the X/Open people have decided to allow things similar to Unix to be called "Unix systems", but not to use the little (tm) symbol. >In fact from what Dan Pop says, systems like Solaris and Irix *can* in >fact call themselves Unix, since they have an appropaite agreement with >the trademark holder. What is not clear is what is involved (other than >paying a fee) in getting this permission (i.e. is there any formal >testing process?) Assumably, there is, because they had to alter their systems to get that approval, though not much, because SVR4 out of the box is pretty much canonical Unix, and Solaris is definitely an SVR4 derivitive. (It has the SVR2-4 sed bug.) -s -- Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach. C/Unix wizard -- C/Unix questions? Send mail for help. No, really! FUCK the communications decency act. Goddamned government. [literally.] The *other* C FAQ - http://www.solon.com/~seebs/c/c-iaq.html