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UNIX, POSIX, and Open Systems: The Open Standards Puzzle

By John S. Quarterman , Susanne Wilhelm

Book information

Publisher
Addison-Wesley
Year
1993
ISBN
0201527723, 9780201527728
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12320690 bytes)
Pages
416\446
Time added
2018-05-04 13:08:14
UNIX;POSIX

Description

UNIX, POSIX, and Open Systems discusses issues that affect many standards and profiles including networking; conformance testing; independence from a single programming language; and internationalization across human languages, codesets, and cultural conventions. Standards facilitate application portability, user portability, and interoperability among different versions of UNIX and other open systems. This is a how-to book for understanding, implementing, and using standards, explaining how standards are produced, and how to affect them. Highlights Include: - Descriptions of the major standards bodies, industry consortia, and user groups that produce specifications and standards, and of how different groups may be faster, broader, or better able to achieve a consensus in standardization - Discussions of POSIX standards and other specific standards related to the historical UNIX operating system - Emphasis on the role of networking in open systems and standards - Extensive coverage of profiles and their uses in implementing, selling, and buying computer software and hardware

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