UNIX, POSIX, and Open Systems: The Open Standards Puzzle (Unix and Open Systems Series) - Hardcover

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John S. Quarterman is Senior Technical Partner at Texas Internet Consulting, which consults in networks and open systems with particular emphasis on TCP/IP networks, UNIX systems, and standards.He is the author of The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide (Digital Press, 1990), and is a coauthor of UNIX, POSIX, and Open Systems: The Open Standards Puzzle (1993), Practical Internetworking with TCP/IP and UNIX (1993), The Internet Connection: System Connectivity and Configuration (1994), and The E-Mail Companion: Communicating Effectively via the Internet and Other Global Networks (1994), all published by Addison-Wesley. He is editor of Matrix News, a monthly newsletter about issues that cross network, geographic, and political boundaries, and of Matrix Maps Quarterly; both are published by Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc. (MIDS) of Austin, Texas. He is a partner in Zilker Internet Park, which provides Internet access from Austin. He and his wife, Gretchen Quarterman, split their time among his home in Austin, hers in Buffalo, New York, and various other locations.

Susanne Wilhelm is the President of Windsound Consulting. Her fields of specialization include UNIX system software, open systems standards, system administration, embedded systems, and networking. She has been involved with POSIX standards since 1989. She is currently developing a test platform for Proximity Sensor Electronics Units.

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UNIX®, POSIX, and Open Systems discusses issues that affect many standards and profiles including networking; conformance testing; independence from a single programming language; and internationalization across human languages, codesets, and cultural conventions. Standards facilitate application portability, user portability, and interoperability among different versions of UNIX and other open systems. This is a how-to book for understanding, implementing, and using standards, explaining how standards are produced, and how to affect them.

Highlights Include:

• Descriptions of the major standards bodies, industry consortia, and user groups that produce specifications and standards, and of how different groups may be faster, broader, or better able to achieve a consensus in standardization
  
  
• Discussions of POSIX standards and other specific standards related to the historical UNIX operating system
  
  
• Emphasis on the role of networking in open systems and standards
  
  
• Extensive coverage of profiles and their uses in implementing, selling, and buying computer software and hardware

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