X/Open
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X/Open
(body)An international consortium of vendors who are defining
the X/Open Common Applications Environment to provide
applications portability. They also procuced the X/open Portability Guide (XPG).
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X/Open
A consortium of international computer vendors that was founded in 1984 to resolve standards issues. Incorporated in 1987 and based in London, X/Open merged with the Open Software Foundation in 1996 to become The Open Group. See Open Group.Copyright © 1981-2019 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.