Portable Operating System Interface

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(operating system, standard)

Portable Operating System Interface - (POSIX) A set of IEEE standards designed to provide application portability between Unix variants. IEEE 1003.1 defines a Unix-like operating system interface, IEEE 1003.2 defines the shell and utilities and IEEE 1003.4 defines real-time extensions.

["More UNIX For Dummies", ISBN: 1-56884-361-5] says it stands for "Portable Operating System Interface with an X thrown in to make it sound cooler."

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1, "Standard for Information Technology: Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)".

NetBSD Operating System to Add Elements of the POSIX(R) Standard by Business Wire

Currently SCA developers face major problems integrating numerous Real-time operating systems (RTOS), Portable Operating System Interfaces (POSIX), object request brokers (ORB), core frameworks (CF) and high performance transports from different vendors.

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