<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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