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by Pet_Ant 279 days ago
Yes, there is "UNIX V7" in 2013... which apparently only IBM's AIX supports. This is ironic because the whole idea of UNIX is to create a common platform for interoperability, but only one platform actually supports. I really wonder why Apple just doesn't put a couple of FTEs on it and upgrade to V7. I'm sure it wouldn't take much. But it sort of reminds me of Java and HTML where there were standards to allow for independent implementations, but have collapsed to single implementations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification#Comp...

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Solaris did support it, I guess it was more relevant when there were multiple vendors