List of operating systems
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List of operating systems.
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[edit] The first operating systems
- CTSS (The Compatible TimeShare System, developed at MIT by Corbato, et al)
- Incompatible Timesharing System (The Incompatible Timeshare System, developed at MIT for the DEC 10 / 20 mainframes)
- Multics (joint OS development project by Bell Labs, GE, and MIT)
- Master programme developed for Leo Computers, Leo III in 1962
- THE operating system (by Dijkstra et al)
[edit] The first proprietary microcomputer operating systems
- Apple Computer (inital version was firmware with Integer BASIC; later versions included a Microsoft BASIC)
- Business Operating System (BOS) - cross platform, command-line based
- Commodore PET, Commodore 64, and Commodore VIC-20,
- The very first IBM-PC (3 OS offered to start, UCSD P-system, CPM-86, PC-DOS)
- Flex (by Technical Systems Consultants for Motorola 6800 based microcomputers: SWTPC, Tano, Smoke Signal Broadcasting, Gimix, etc)
- FLEX9 (by TSC for Motorola 6809 based micros)
- mini-FLEX (by TSC for 5.25" disks on 6800 based machines)
- Sinclair Micro and QX, etc
- TRS-DOS, ROM OS's (largely Microsoft BASIC implementations with file system extensions)
- TI99-4
[edit] Unix-like and other POSIX-compliant systems
- AIX (Unix from IBM)
- Amoeba (research OS by Andrew S. Tanenbaum)
- AtheOS (continued under the Syllable code-fork)
- A/UX (Unix-based Apple OS from the beginning of the 1990s)
- BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution, a variant of Unix for DEC VAX hardware)
- Cromix (Unix-emulating OS from Cromemco)
- Coherent (Unix-emulating OS from Mark Williams Co. for PC class computers)
- DNIX
- Digital UNIX (which became HP's Tru64 for Digital's AXP line of 64-bit computers)
- FreeBSD (one of the open source outgrowths of UC Regents' abandonment of CSRG's 'BSD Unix')
- GNU/Hurd
- GNU/Linux (see Linux)
- HP-UX from HP
- Idris workalike from Whitesmiths
- IRIX from SGI
- LainOS (FreeBSD-based project that aims to reproduce the "Navi" GUI from Serial Experiments Lain)
- Linux (major free Unix-like kernel)
- Mac OS X from Apple Computer
- Minix (study OS developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in the Netherlands)
- NetBSD (one of the post-CSRG open source varieties of BSD)
- NeXTSTEP for Stephen Job's NeXT workstations.
- OS-9(for Morotola 6809 based machines)
- OS-9/68k (for Motorola 680x0 based machines)
- OS-9000 (OS-9 written in C for intel and other processors)
- OS/360
- OSF/1
- OpenBSD (one of the post-CSRG open source varieties of BSD)
- OPENSTEP NeXTSTEP ported to Intel x86, HP PA-RISC, and other platforms.
- Plan 9 (networking OS developed at Bell Labs)
- QNX (POSIX, microkernel OS; usually a real time embedded OS)
- Rhapsody
- RiscOS
- SCO UNIX (from SCO, bought by Caldera who re-renamed themselves SCO)
- Solaris from Sun Microsystems
- SunOS from Sun Microsystems (became Solaris)
- System V (a release of AT&T Unix, 'SVr4' was the 4th minor release)
- UNIX (OS developed at Bell Labs ca 1970 initially by Ken Thompson)
- UNIflex (Unix emulating OS by TSC for DMA-capable, extended addresses, Mototola 6809 based computers; eg SWTPC, GIMIX, ...)
- Ultrix (DEC's first version of Unix for VAX, PDP-11, and MIPS-based Decstation computers, based on BSD)
- UniCOS from Cray
- Xenix (Microsoft's licensed version of Unix for various hardware platforms)
- z/OS (latest version of IBM mainframe OS)
[edit] Generic/commodity, non-UNIX, and other
- AOS, now called Bluebottle (a concurrent and active object update to the Oberon operating system)
- AROS (Amiga Research Operating System)
- Bluebottle (see AOS)
- BS2000 by Siemens AG
- Control Program/Monitor-80 (CPM operating system)
- CP/M-86 (CP/M for Intel 8088/86 from Digital Research)
- DESQView (windowing GUI for MS-DOS, ca 1985)
- DR-DOS (MS-DOS compatible OS from Digital Research, later from Novell, Caldera, ..; still being used for special purpose projects)
- FLEX9 (by TSC for Motorola 6809 based machines; successor to FLEX, which was for Motorola 6800 CPUs)
- FreeDOS (an open source MS-DOS workalike)
- GEM (GUI for MS-DOS / DR-DOS from Digital Research)
- GEOS
- MS-DOS (OS Microsoft purchased from Seattle Computer to use for IBM PC compatible machines)
- MorphOS (by Genesi)
- NetWare (by Novell)
- NeXTStep (which, more or less, became Mac OS X by NeXT)
- PC-DOS (IBM's version of MS-DOS for PC machines)
- Pick (often licensed and renamed)
- Plan 9, Inferno (networked OS originally from Bell Labs Computer Research)
- Primos by Prime Computer
- Mach (from OS kernel research at CMU; see NextStep)
- MP/M-80 (Multi programming version of CP/M-86 from Digital Research)
- NewOS
- Oberon operating system/(developed at ETH-Zurich by Niklaus Wirth et al) for the Ceres and Chameleon workstation projects. see also Oberon programming language
- OS/2 (Windows/MS-DOS compatible operating system developed through a joint Microsoft-IBM alliance, but later abandoned by Microsoft when they chose to focus on Windows NT; a considerable technical improvement on both early Windows and MS-DOS. Not a commercial success. The Odin open source project adds Windows 9x compatibility to OS/2. See Sourceforge.com for details)
- OS-9 (Unix emulating OS from Microware for Motorola 6809 based microcomputers)
- OS-9/68k (Unix emulating OS from Microware for Morotola 680x0 based computers; developed from OS-9)
- OS-9000 (portable Unix emulating OS from Microware; one implementation was for Intel x86)
- SSB-DOS (by TSC for Smoke Signal Broadcasting; a variant of FLEX in most respects)
- TripOS
- TUNES
- QDOS (developed at Seattle Computer Products by Tim Paterson for the new Intel 808x CPUs; also called SCP-DOS; licensed to Microsoft -- became MS-DOS/PC-DOS)
- UCSD P-system (portable complete programming environment/operating system developed by a long running student project at the Univ Calif/San Diego; directed by Prof Ken Bowles; written Pascal)
- VisiOn (first GUI for early PC machines, not commercially successful)
- Visopsys (hobby OS for PCs)
- VME by International Computers Limited (ICL)
[edit] Hobby OS
Operating systems written for a hobby.
- ReactOS (an open source Windows NT workalike)
- Panalix
- MenuetOS
- SkyOS (hobby / commercial desktop OS for PCs)
[edit] Proprietary
[edit] Acorn
- Arthur
- ARX
- RISC OS
- RISCiX
[edit] Amiga
- AmigaOS
[edit] Atari ST
- MultiTOS
- MiNT
- TOS
[edit] Apple/Macintosh
- Apple DOS
- A/UX
- Darwin
- GS/OS
- Mac OS classic
- Mac OS X
- ProDOS
[edit] Be Incorporated
- BeOS
- BeIA
- Zeta
[edit] Digital/Compaq/HP
- AIS
- ITS (for the PDP-6 and PDP-10)
- OS-8
- RSTS/E (ran on several machines, chiefly PDP-11s)
- RSX-11 (multiuser, multitasking OS for PDP-11s)
- RT-11 (single user OS for PDP-11)
- TENEX (from BBN)
- TOPS-10 (for the PDP-10)
- TOPS-20 (for the PDP-10)
- VMS (by DEC for the VAX mini-computer range; later renamed OpenVMS)
- WAITS
[edit] IBM
- AIX (a version of Unix)
- ALCS
- Basic Operating System (first system released for the System 360, as an interim)
- DOS/VSE
- MFT (later called OV/VS1)
- MVS (latest variant of MVT)
- MVT (later called OV/VS2)
- OS/2
- OS/360 (first OS planned for the System 360 architecture)
- OS/390
- OS/400
- PC-DOS (IBM's version of DOS)
- SVS
- TPF
- VM/CMS
- z/OS
[edit] Microsoft
- MS-DOS
- Microsoft Windows
- Windows 1.0
- Windows 2.0 (for 80286)
- Windows 3.0 (the first version to make substantial commercial impact)
- Windows 3.1
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Windows ME
- Windows NT (developed at Microsoft by a team led by David Cutler, based on earlier cooperation with IBM on OS/2)
- Windows NT 3.5
- Windows NT 4
- Windows 2000 (aka Windows NT v5.0)
- Windows XP (based on Win2K internally; the first "home" vesion based on Windows NT, rather than MS-DOS)
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Vista
- Xenix (licensed version of Unix; sold to SCO in 1990s)
- Windows CE (Compact Edition, for handhelds)
[edit] Personal digital assistants (PDAs)
- EPOC originally from Psion (UK), now from Symbian, preferred name now is Symbian OS
- Palm OS from Palm Inc; now spun off as PalmSource
- Pocket PC from Microsoft
- Windows CE Windows Compact Edition, from Microsoft
[edit] Microcontroller, embedded
Little operating systems that run on small devices.
- Contiki
- INTEGRITY
- ITRON
- Nucleus RTOS
- OSEK
- QNX
- ThreadX
- TRON OS developed by Ken Sakamura
- VxWorks
- µCLinux
- eCos
[edit] Fictional operating systems
Operating systems that have only appeared in fiction or as jokes.
- ALTIMIT OS - From .hack
- Digitronix - From The Hacker Files
- Hyper OS - From the movie Patlabor
- Penix
- Wheatonix - April fool's joke.
[edit] See also
- Computer software
- Disk operating system
- Real-time operating system
