std-unix@uunet.UU.NET (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) (11/15/87)
There's not been much activity in this newsgroup lately. This is slightly surprising, consdiring the amount of activity about standards lately: The USENIX POSIX Portability Workshop, resulting in many comments and objections being fed into the IEEE 1003.1 balloting. The NBS POSIX Implementation Workshop, producing input to NBS about their proposed Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS). The publication of two documents on POSIX by /usr/group, and the creation of newsgroups related to the /usr/group Technical Committee. Balloting on IEEE P1003.1 during the thirty days starting 15 November (tomorrow). Concurrent balloting on the same draft of P1003.1 as an ISO draft standard. Announcements by Sun and AT&T of a joint plan for future development of UNIX, incorporating both hardware and software. A decision by the General Services Administration (GSA) regarding the protest by DEC of an Air Force RFP that specified System V and SVVS. Quiet progress by P1003.2 and the other P1003 subcommittees. Some discussion of these things might be interesting. Volume-Number: Volume 12, Number 27