Open Software Foundation
<body> (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 systems 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) | ||||
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open software foundation
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 systems 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.
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 systems 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.
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Open Software Foundation
The Open Software Foundation (OSF) was an organization founded in 1988 to create an open standard for an implementation of the Unix operating system. The organization was first proposed by Armando Stettner of Digital Equipment Corporation at a by-invitation-only meeting hosted by DEC for several UNIX vendors (called the Hamilton Group) to be an organization for joint development, mostly in response to the threat of the unilateral 'merged UNIX' efforts by AT&T and Sun Microsystems. The foundation's original members were Apollo Computers, Groupe Bull, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Nixdorf Computer, and Siemens AG, sometimes called the "Gang of Seven". Later members included Philips and Hitachi.
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