Re: [tlug] Unix's 40th Birthday

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Bruno Raoult writes:
 > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 00:51, Niels Kobschaetzki <
 > n.kobschaetzki@example.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > Doesn't Unix usually just means POSIX-compliant?
 > >
 > 
 > Yes and no: Unix means : Kernel interfaces (such as offered by
 > kernels - Mach, Linux, AIX, Solaris, and many others), libraries,
 > command-line interfaces ("ls", "ps",...), and obviously all the C
 > headers necessary to make your "hello world" to compile (C is
 > mandatory, as far as I know).
 > 
 > This was my point in my previous answer: MacOS is Unix as well as
 > Linux is (except that MacOs is really registered).

Sure, but it's easy enough to say what you said in far fewer words.
Technically, "POSIX conformant" (or SUS or whichever).
Philosophically, "Unix is a way of life."  And we're back where we
started.

 > 2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2.

Who's hors correcte here?