Online Dictionary : O : osf
osf

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osf - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Open Software Foundation
  OSF
  
     <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)
  

osf - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  OSF
         Open Software Foundation (HP, DEC, IBM, org.)
         

  OSF
         Operations System Function (IN)
         

  OSF
         Oppose Sun Forever [ aka Open Software Foundation] (slang, org.)