X/OPEN
John Quarterman
jsq at ut-sally.UUCP
Wed Oct 2 07:01:13 AEST 1985
At the D.C. P1003 committee meeting, there were two documents which
were referred to more than any others which were not actually submitted
as proposals to the committee: The System V Interface Definition
(The Purple Book), and the X/OPEN PORTABILITY GUIDE (The Green Book).
(The /usr/group Standard was constantly being referred to implicitly,
since the current P1003 drafts are derived from it, and of course the
X3J11 draft standard was of great interest.)
X/OPEN is "A Group of European Computer Manufacturers" who have produced
a document intended to promote the writing of portable facilities.
Their flyer remarks (in five languages), "Now we all speak the same
language in Europe."
The book is published by
Elsevier Science Publishers
Book Order Department
PO Box 211
1000 AE Amsterdam
The Netherlands
or, for those in the U.S.A. or Canada:
Elsevier Science Publishers Co Inc.
PO Box 1663
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163
The price is Dfl 275,00 or USD 75.00. According to the order form,
"This price includes the costs of one update which will be mailed
automatically upon publication." They take a large number of credit
cards and other forms of payment.
Could someone please send me details on how to order the SVID so
I can post that, too? While I realize that such announcements
may appear somewhat commercial, nonetheless the X/OPEN and SVID
documents are of sufficiently direct interest to the standards
effort to post access information for them. (If you disagree
with this assertion, let me know.)
Volume-Number: Volume 2, Number 10
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