Organization:88open
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| Founded | 1988 |
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| Founder | Motorola |
88open was an industry standards group set up by Motorola in 1988 to standardize Unix systems on their Motorola 88000 RISC CPU systems.[1] At its peak, the spinoff 88open Consortium Ltd. had a staff of 30 people and over 50 supporters.[2] The effort was largely a failure, at least in terms of attracting attention to the 88000 platform. The group was closed in favor of the AIM alliance, and the 88000 platform was folded into AIM's PowerPC.[3][4]
Members
Motorola provided 50% of the financial support for the consortium. Early members were Data General, Convergent, and Tektronix. By May 1988, 28 companies had joined with 7 not releasing their names.[5][6]
Standards
- Object Compatibility Standard (OCS): An 88open standard for compilers and linkers.
See also
- AIM alliance
References
- ↑ Patton, Carole (May 30, 1988). "RISC Chip Vendors Vie for Third-Party Support". InfoWorld. https://books.google.com/books?id=4D4EAAAAMBAJ&q=88open+motorola&pg=PA31.
- ↑ Gomes-Casseres, Benjamin (1996) (in en). The Alliance Revolution: The New Shape of Business Rivalry. Harvard University Press. p. 124. ISBN 9780674016477. https://archive.org/details/alliancerevoluti00gome. "88open."
- ↑ Updegrove, Andrew (March 2006). "STANDARDS WARS: SITUATIONS, STRATEGIES AND OUTCOMES". ConsortiumInfo.org. p. 7. http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/pdf/mar06/feature.pdf.
- ↑ Kahin, Brian; Abbate, Janet (1995) (in en). Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262112062. https://books.google.com/books?id=0hQvhwk7xkwC&q=88open+powerpc&pg=PA330.
- ↑ "US Market for UNIX 1989-1994". 1989. https://archive.org/stream/usmarketforunix13722unse#page/74/mode/2up/search/data+general.
- ↑ "US Market for UNIX 1989-1994". 1989. https://archive.org/stream/usmarketforunix13722unse#page/74/mode/2up/search/88open.
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