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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Open Software Foundation | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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Open Software Foundation (OSF) A foundation created by nine computer vendors, ({Apollo}, {DEC}, {Hewlett-Packard}, {IBM}, {Bull}, {Nixdorf}, {Philips}, {Siemens} and {Hitachi}) to promote "Open Computing". It is planned that common {operating system}s and interfaces, based on developments of {Unix} and the {X Window System} will be forthcoming for a wide range of different hardware architectures. OSF announced the release of the industry's first open {operating system} - OSF/1 on 23 October 1990. (1994-11-23) | |
