meaning of open software foundation
1. 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 industrys first open operating system - OSF/1 on 23 October 1990.
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