diff -r 65a956596368 -r 834d32f01b00 data/dictionary.xml --- a/data/dictionary.xml Fri Aug 16 14:15:38 2013 +0200 +++ b/data/dictionary.xml Fri Aug 16 14:33:33 2013 +0200 @@ -1427,7 +1427,16 @@ - + + + a family of standards for maintaining compatibility between operating systems; + defines API, command line shells and utility interfaces + and thus brings compatibility amog many variants of unix and unix-like operating systems; + the name POSIX was suggested by Richard Stallman (the standards was formerly known as IEEE-IX); + there are standards for e.g. process creation and control, signals, pipes, message passing, shared memory or semaphores; + Examples of fully or mostly POSIX-compliant systems: AIX, IRIS, Solaris, OS X, GNU/Linux, BeOS (Haiku) or several BSD variants + + computer