UNIX and POSIX

Marcus J. Ranum mjr at hussar.dco.dec.com
Tue Nov 6 16:06:58 AEST 1990


In article <812 at inews.intel.com> bhoughto at cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:

>[...]  but would it be Unix without pipes?  Heck, no!

	POSIX != UNIX.

...in fact, a purist would argue POSIX and UNIX are mutually exclusive. :)

mjr.
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