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Open system — may refer to: Open system (computing), one of a class of computers and associated software that provides some combination of interoperability, portability and open software standards, particularly Unix and Unix like systems Open system (systems… … Wikipedia
Open system (computing) — Open systems are computer systems that provide some combination of interoperability, portability, and open software standards. (It can also mean specific installations that are configured to allow unrestricted access by people and/or other… … Wikipedia
Open system (systems theory) — This article is about systems theory. For other uses, see Open system (disambiguation). Open System Model (basics) An open system is a system which continuously interacts with its environment. The interaction can take the form of information,… … Wikipedia
Open (system call) — For most file systems, a program initializes access to a file in a filesystem using the open system call. This allocates resources associated to the file (the file descriptor), and returns a handle that the process will use to refer to that file … Wikipedia
Open system (control theory) — An open system is a feedforward system that does not have any feedback loop to control its output in a control system in systems theory. The system is an open system because it does not have a feedback loop in its control. In contrast, a closed… … Wikipedia
open system — Thermodynam. a region separated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits a transfer of matter or energy across it. Cf. closed system. [1935 40] * * * … Universalium
Open gaming — is the movement within the role playing game (RPG) industry that is somewhat similar to the open source movement.[1] The key aspect is that authors give recipients of works covered by copyright a license to certain rights, such as the right to… … Wikipedia
Open — may refer to: Contents 1 Philosophy 2 Mathematics 3 Music and media … Wikipedia
System — (from Latin systēma , in turn from Greek polytonic|σύστημα systēma) is a set of interacting or interdependent entities, real or abstract, forming an integrated whole. The concept of an integrated whole can also be stated in terms of a system… … Wikipedia
Open Graphics Project — Website http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki index.php Commercial? Yes Type of project Open hardware … Wikipedia
Open Systems Interconnection — (OSI) is an effort to standardize networking that was started in 1977[1] by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), along with the ITU T. Contents 1 History 2 Criticism … Wikipedia
