IEEE's Posix: making progress

The status of the interface standards within the IEEE Portable Operating System Interface (Posix) environment (the x in Posix denotes the Unix operating system origin of this effort) is discussed. The open system standards within the Posix activity are expected to resolve the portability and interop...

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Published inIEEE spectrum Vol. 28; no. 12; pp. 36 - 39
Main Author Kuhn, D.R.
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.12.1991
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
ANSI standards
Computer industry
Connectivity
Human-computer interaction
Interfaces
Interoperability
ISO standards
Open source software
Open systems
Operating systems
OSI
Software standards
Standards development
Standards organizations
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Summary:The status of the interface standards within the IEEE Portable Operating System Interface (Posix) environment (the x in Posix denotes the Unix operating system origin of this effort) is discussed. The open system standards within the Posix activity are expected to resolve the portability and interoperability problems and to open the door to a major new industry of standard software components, or modules. From these components, users will be able to build and modify larger systems to suit their evolving needs, eliminating the need to produce several versions of an application program to accommodate operating systems with different file system structures and network interfaces. Details of the Posix Open Systems Environment (OSE) application program interfaces are examined to show how standards can be used in constructing portable software.< >
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ISSN:0018-9235
1939-9340
DOI:10.1109/6.106103