Re: comedi as a POSIX standard

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Steven Jenkins wrote:

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> The main benefits I can imagine from a POSIX Comedi standard are:
> 
> 1. Implementation on more platforms, 
[...]
> 2. Support from a/d and d/a board vendors. 
[...]
These are advantages of _API standardization_, and not of _POSIX_
standardization in particular. POSIX has one big disadvantage: it's
kept too much closed by IEEE, in the sense that the standards are not
free! 

Herman

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Received on 2003-04-13Z20:21:40