Standards,Docs, etc.

Here we collect references to documentations about programming and API standards. Especially public available resources, since unfortunately most offical standards documents are not distributed freely.

Definitions

Quoting the linux man pages (INTRO(2) linux Programmer's Manual)
SVr4
System V Release 4 Unix, as described in the "Pro- grammer's Reference Manual: Operating System API (Intel processors)" (Prentice-Hall 1992, ISBN 0-13-951294-2)
SVID
System V Interface Definition, as described in "The System V Interface Definition, Fourth Edition", available at ftp.fpk.novell.com/pub/unix-standards/svid/ [broken link!] in Postscript files.
POSIX.1
IEEE 1003.1-1990 part 1, aka ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990s, aka "IEEE Portable Operating System Interface for Computing Environments", as elucidated in Donald Lewine's "POSIX Programmer's Guide" (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1991, ISBN 0-937175-73-0.
POSIX.1b
IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX.1b standard) describing real-time facilities for portable operating systems, aka ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996, as elucidated in "Programming for the real world - POSIX.4" by Bill O. Gallmeister (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. ISBN 1-56592-074-0).
4.3BSD/4.4BSD
The 4.3 and 4.4 distributions of Berkeley Unix. 4.4BSD was upward-compatible from 4.3.
V7
Version 7, the ancestral Unix from Bell Labs.