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It's "open" in the sense of the Open Software Foundation, OPENSTEP, or OpenGL. Back in the pre-CATB days, "open" meant "developed by a consortium rather than a
by bitwize 2y ago
It's "open" in the sense of the Open Software Foundation, OPENSTEP, or OpenGL. Back in the pre-CATB days, "open" meant "developed by a consortium rather than a vendor", or perhaps even just "ported to more than one CPU architecture". This latter sense is what is meant in OpenVMS, as it was ported to DEC Alpha CPUs in the mid-90s.
- flomo 2y agoI believe in this case, "open" = supports UNIX/POSIX apis.
- actionfromafar 2y agoAnd that there was documentation on how it worked.
- zie 2y agoIt was literally a complete bookshelf completely full for the docs.
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