#rev 2020-09-02 davidsch
#rev 2018-08-28 davidsch

= POSIX =
The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a collection of application programming interface standards for maintaining compatibility between various types of mostly UNIX-like operating systems. Thus, applications that use POSIX-compliant interfaces will be more portable between different (UNIX) platforms.

== Literature ==
[[http://www.ing.iac.es/~docs/external/serial/serial.pdf|Serial programming guide for POSIX]] is a great online book on programming Unix serial ports.

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