posixiation (was Re: LINUX is obsolete)
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posixiation (was Re: LINUX is obsolete)
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Subject: posixiation (was Re: LINUX is obsolete)
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From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1992 01:13:00 GMT
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Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Andy Tanenbaum:
>MINIX was designed before POSIX, and is now being (slowly) POSIXized as
>everyone who follows this newsgroup knows.
May I recommend the use of the verb "posixiate" (by analogy with
asphyxiate) instead of "posixize"? Similarly, I prefer "ansitise"
(converse and anagram of "sanitise") to "ansify".
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Geoff Collyer world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff