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 WindowSystem 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.