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From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [TUHS] Oracle euthanizes Solaris 12, expunging it from roadmap
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 10:43:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzwe9tNMgTzUkNmUKweXrYTEaDCpCABQPXU1umMOxLczaA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E2018BCE-29B6-4EFE-B6A1-9A6A3C4EF9B0@tfeb.org>

On 20 January 2017 at 19:25, Tim Bradshaw <tfb at tfeb.org> wrote:
> On 20 Jan 2017, at 19:38, Nemo <cym224 at gmail.com> wrote:
> As they say, 'ave a laugh, guv:
> http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=43781
> You have not understood the problem I was describing I think:

I did understand.  My response was to your comment about Linux and
standards in the same sentence.  (This was humour, indicated by the
phrase 'ave a laugh.)

> [...] such platforms would make porting things more easy, but they would
> also be mostly indistinguishable from each other and thus eliminate most of
> the competition between vendors.

Well, I believe that was the original intent of POSIX as far as the
Pentagon was concerned.  It (and other countries) wanted source that
could be recompiled/run on any POSIX box.

N.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-21 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-19  7:53 Kay Parker   
2017-01-19  8:49 ` Wesley Parish
2017-01-19 14:40   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-01-19 16:39     ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-19 17:02       ` Arthur Krewat
2017-01-20  2:00     ` Nick Downing
2017-01-20 11:24       ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-20 13:26         ` Random832
2017-01-20 14:23           ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-20 14:29             ` Steve Nickolas
2017-01-20 15:20               ` Arthur Krewat
2017-01-20 15:45                 ` Andy Kosela
2017-01-20 16:30                   ` tfb
2017-01-20 19:38                     ` Nemo
2017-01-21  0:25                       ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-21  1:58                         ` Rico Pajarola
2017-01-21 17:32                           ` Arthur Krewat
2017-01-24  3:51                             ` Rico Pajarola
2017-01-21 15:43                         ` Nemo [this message]
2017-01-20 20:30                   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-20 22:30                     ` Kay Parker   
2017-01-20 23:50                       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-21  0:09                         ` Steve Nickolas
2017-01-21  1:03                           ` Kurt H Maier
2017-01-20 11:54       ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-19 18:17   ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-20 14:58 Rudi Blom

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