(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)