Open Software Foundation

The Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) was a software consortium founded in 1988 by AT&T, Bull , HP , IBM , DEC , Nixdorf, Olivetti, Philips and Siemens to develop new open industry standards for Unix operating systems. In 1996 the OSF merged with X / Open to form the Open Group .

Products

• The Open Software Foundation Mach Kernel (OSFMK) standardized the further development of the Mach kernel from version 3 onwards, after extensions that were partially incompatible with one another were created in various operating system projects.

• With OSF / 1 , later Digital UNIX or Tru64 UNIX , the OSF created a Unix operating system based on OSFMK , which was compatible with UNIX System V and which strongly favored the development of other systems, among other things. a. GNU and Darwin .

• With OSF / Motif , the OSF created a graphical user interface that determines how an application should look and behave, including the placement of title bars, menus, buttons and the like. Motif laid the basis for the Open Group's Common Desktop Environment (CDE), which in turn inspired Xfce and KDE .

See also

• History of Unix

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GNU Hurd - Microkernel - Mach: History. In: GNU.org. December 18, 2016, accessed November 17, 2018 .