Re: posix and system V

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 06:21:58 -0000

On 22 Apr 2004 06:30:51 -0700, Diego
  <micarov@yahoo.com> wrote:
> What's the difference between posix and system V?

System V release 4 was the last official release of Unix by AT&T in the
late 1980s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX/). POSIX is a set of
standards maintained by the IEEE. (http://www.pasc.org). 

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