"Open System" Redefined in OSI Specification

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From: David Vinayak Wallace
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 14:38

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The definition OSI uses far predates the definition you cite, which
was invented by Sun's marketing department.


In fact Sun has changed the meaning of the word TWICE.  First they
made it mean "system which accommodates portable software."  Now it
means "any piece of Sun software."  Sun isn't the only one guilty of
this.  Anyone who uses "byte" and assumes it can only be 8 bits long
is paying homage to IBM's marketing department.

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