[Toybox] Posix: failing by omission since 1988.

David Seikel onefang at gmail.com
Wed Jun 26 20:43:42 PDT 2013


On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:06:28 -0500 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> Remember: the S-100 systems were standardized. (IEEE 646 was it?)
> The PC systems were merely copying what IBM did, then what Compaq
> did, then copying each other. Guess which won?

I remember S-100, I used to work with it a looong time ago.  I don't
think anyone other than ancient computer geeks like me or computer
historians like you will remember it.  That answers your "Guess which
won?" question.

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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