Kamal
Answered On : Jun 26th, 2005
An open system is a system which allows application portability, system interoperability, and user portability between many different computer vendor hardware platforms.
A closed system is vice-versa to the above.

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Rajkumar
Answered On : Jul 29th, 2005
In computing, an open system (computing) is a computer operating system that provides interoperability, portability or both, particularly Unix systems
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Open system is just a system by which you can interact with the user with the help of any other system, but if you dont have any other system to interact with the user then this is called the closed system.
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