definitions

Subject: definitions
From: Lee (lee@afabco.com)
Date: Fri Mar 15 2002 - 10:32:10 AKST

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What is a nice short answer to 'what is Posix, and why is it important'.

So far:

"Stands for Portable Operating System for Unix, and is a specification [from
whom?] that attempts to standardize the API between programs and the
Operating System. Originally targetted at *nix systems, it has been
adopted, with mixed success, by non-unix style OSes, notably Microsoft
NT/2000. "

Is this even close?

thanks!

Lee

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