88open

The 88open Consortium Ltd. was an industry standards group set up by Motorola in 1988 to standardize Unix systems on their Motorola 88000 RISC processor systems.[1] At its peak, it 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, and the group folded as soon as Motorola turned their attention to the PowerPC.[3][4]

Members

Motorola provided 50% of the financial support for the consortium. Early members were Data General, Convergent and Tektronics. By May 1988, there were 28 companies who had joined with 7 not releasing their names.[5][6]

Standards
  • Object Compatibility Standard (OCS): An 88open standard for compilers and linkers.
gollark: And nonexistent variables are just empty strings.
gollark: There are a bunch of weird incantations which have to be set to make things actually be errors which halt execution.
gollark: But it's bee.
gollark: The formatting thing isn't exactly in shells as much as the infrastructure surrounding them.
gollark: Shells contain some very bee things like:- in-band signalling of formatting- excessive stringyness, poor data structures- poor error handling- lack of advanced constructs- bad modularitybut cool things like:- easy to call out to other utilities- highly concurrency- file descriptor manipulation

See also

References
  1. Patton, Carole (May 30, 1988). "RISC Chip Vendors Vie for Third-Party Support". InfoWorld.
  2. Gomes-Casseres, Benjamin (1996). The Alliance Revolution: The New Shape of Business Rivalry. Harvard University Press. p. 124. ISBN 9780674016477. 88open.
  3. Updegrove, Andrew (March 2006). "STANDARDS WARS: SITUATIONS, STRATEGIES AND OUTCOMES" (PDF). ConsortiumInfo.org. p. 7. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
  4. Kahin, Brian; Abbate, Janet (1995). Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262112062.
  5. "US Market for UNIX 1989-1994". archive.org. Retrieved 2017-06-21.
  6. "US Market for UNIX 1989-1994". archive.org. Retrieved 2017-06-21.

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