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1.4 </concept>
1.5 <concept>
1.6 <term abbreviation="POSIX" completeForm="Portable Operating System Interface" language="en"/>
1.7 - <explanation language="en"><text></text></explanation>
1.8 + <explanation language="en">
1.9 + <text>
1.10 + a family of standards for maintaining compatibility between operating systems;
1.11 + defines API, command line shells and utility interfaces
1.12 + and thus brings compatibility amog many variants of unix and unix-like operating systems;
1.13 + the name POSIX was suggested by Richard Stallman (the standards was formerly known as IEEE-IX);
1.14 + there are standards for e.g. process creation and control, signals, pipes, message passing, shared memory or semaphores;
1.15 + Examples of fully or mostly POSIX-compliant systems: AIX, IRIS, Solaris, OS X, GNU/Linux, BeOS (Haiku) or several BSD variants
1.16 + </text>
1.17 + </explanation>
1.18 <tag>computer</tag>
1.19 </concept>
1.20 <concept>