On Wed, Jun 26, 2024, 8:12 PM Ron Natalie wrote: > RMS is an odiferous pedophile. > Every time I was within six feet of him I needed to go shower. > Despit his many legit accomplishments, he likes to amplify what he's done and take undo credit... I've never been close enough to verify the odiferous trait... Warner Warner > ------ Original Message ------ > From "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" > To "Clem Cole" > Cc "Alan Coopersmith" ; "Marc Rochkind" > ; tuhs@tuhs.org > Date 6/26/24, 9:11:00 PM > Subject [TUHS] Origin of the name POSIX (was: ANSI (C) vs IEEE (POSIX) > Standards Body Selection) > > >On Wednesday, 26 June 2024 at 20:44:12 -0400, Clem Cole wrote: > >> rms had nothing to do with the name posix. I have no idea where that > >> comment came from. > > > >At the very least, from rms himself: > >https://stallman.org/articles/posix.html > >There's a reference to this page in the Wikipedia page on POSIX. > > > >> The p1003 committee for Ieee was the portable operating system > standard and > >> at the time adding ix was the norm. POSIX became the term we all used > to > >> refer to the work we doing. Rms was not involved in any way > > > >rms suggests that he was involved in the committee? Not true? Maybe > >a different, related committee? > > > >Greg > >-- > >Sent from my desktop computer. > >Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. > >See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > >This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program > >reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php >