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Could someone tell me whether the following is true/false
"An operating system that implements the POSIX standard,can run on a wide variety of machines"-true/false
In an earlier thread, I expressed my concern about your pattern of never following up in you threads.
Your latest posts re-inforce the suspicion that you are systematically feeding us all your homework questions. If we don't get some kind of feedback from you, then we will have to act on this assumption.
POSIX is a set of standards aimed at application programs. It defines a standard (sic...) set of software interfaces and exactly how those interfaces are supposed to work. (It is also a wonderous example of lexiphanic and therefore utterly-incomprehensible writing!)
Many operating-systems implement (well, "more or less") the POSIX standard interface. (Even Windows implements a fair bit of it.) But this has nothing to do with "the hardware or the range of hardware upon which the operating systems themselves run."
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