List of operating systems

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Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap.

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[edit] Proprietary

[edit] Acorn Computers

[edit] Amiga

[edit] Apollo Computer

[edit] Apple Inc.

[edit] Atari

[edit] BAE Systems

[edit] Be Inc.

[edit] Burroughs Corporation

[edit] Control Data Corporation (CDC)

  • COS (Chippewa Operating System)
    • SIPROS (for Simultaneous Processing Operating System)
    • SCOPE (Supervisory Control Of Program Execution)
    • MACE (Mansfield and Cahlander Executive)
      • KRONOS (Kronographic OS)
        • NOS (Network Operating System)
          • NOS/BE NOS Batch Environment

[edit] Convergent Technologies

[edit] Data General

[edit] DataPoint

  • CTOS Z-80 based, Cassette Tape Operating System for early desktop systems. Capable of up to 8 simultaneous users. Replaced by DataPoint DOS.
  • DOS Intel 808x/80x86-based, Disk Operating Systems for desktop systems. Capable of up to 32 users per node. Supported a sophisticated network of nodes that were often purpose-built. The name DOS was used in these products login screens before it was popularized by IBM, Microsoft and others.

[edit] Digital Research Inc

[edit] Digital/Tandem Computers/Compaq/HP

[edit] Fujitsu

[edit] Gould CSD (Computer System Division)

  • UTX-32, Unix based OS

[edit] Green Hills Software

[edit] Hewlett-Packard

[edit] Honeywell

  • OLERT-E; Online Executive for Real Time - Ran on Honeywell DDP-516 computers.
  • GCOS
  • Multics

[edit] Intel Corporation

  • iRMX; real-time operating system originally created to support the Intel 8080 and 8086 processor families in embedded applications.
  • ISIS-II; "Intel Systems Implementation Supervisor" was THE environment for development of software within the Intel microprocessor family in the early 1980'ies on their Intellec Microcomputer Development System and clones. ISIS-II worked with 8 inch floppy disks and had an editor, cross-assemblers, a linker, an object locator, compilers for PLM (PL/I for microprocessors of the 8080/86 family), a BASIC interpreter, etc. and allowed file management through a console.

[edit] IBM

  • OS/360 and successors on IBM mainframes
    • OS/360 (First official OS targeted for the System/360 architecture, saw customer installations of the following variations:)
      • PCP (Primary Control Program, a kernel and a ground breaking automatic space allocating file system)
      • MFT (Multi-Programming Fixed Tasks, had 15 fixed size partitions defined at boot time)
      • MVT (Multi-Programming Variable Tasks, had up to 15 partitions defined dynamically)
    • OS/VS (The official port of OS/360 targeted for the System/370 virtual memory architecture. "OS/370" is not correct name. Customer installations in the following variations:)
      • SVS (Single Virtual Storage (both VS1 & VS2 began as SVS systems))
      • OS/VS1 (Operating System/Virtual Storage 1, Virtual-memory version of OS/MFT)
      • OS/VS2 (Operating System/Virtual Storage 2, Virtual-memory version of OS/MVT)
    • MVS/SE
    • MVS/SP (MVS System Package)
    • MVS/XA (MVS/SP V2. MVS supported eXtended Architecture, 31bit addressing)
    • MVS/ESA (MVS supported Enterprise System Architecture, horizontal addressing extensions: data only address spaces called Dataspaces)
    • OS/390 (Upgrade from MVS, with an additional Unix-like environment.)
    • z/OS (OS/390 supported z/Architecture, 64bit addressing.)
  • DOS/360 and successors on IBM mainframes
    • BOS/360 (Early interim version of DOS/360, briefly available at a few Alpha & Beta System 360 sites)
    • TOS/360 (Similar to BOS above and more fleeting, able to boot and run from 2x00 series tape drives)
    • DOS/360 (Disk Operating System (DOS). First commonly available OS for System/360 due to problems in the OS/360 Project. Multi-programming system with up to 3 partitions.)
      • DOS/360/RJE (DOS/360 with a control program extension that provided for the monitoring of Remote Job Entry hardware (Card Reader & Printer) connected by dedicated phone lines.)
    • DOS/VS (First DOS offered on System/370 systems, provided Virtual Storage.)
    • DOS/VSE (upgrade of DOS/VS. Still had fixed size processing partitions, but up to 14 partitions.)
    • VSE/SP (renamed from DOS/VSE.)
    • VSE/ESA (DOS/VSE extended virtual memory support to 32 bit addresses (Extended System Architecture)).
    • z/VSE (Latest version of the four decades old DOS lineage. Now supports 64 bit addresses, Multiprocessing, Multiprogramming, SNA, TCP/IP, and some virtual machine features in support of Linux workloads. (All DOS ref. IBM website))
  • TPF Line on IBM mainframes (real-time operating system, largely used by airlines)
  • Others on IBM mainframes
    • IBSYS (tape based operating system for IBM 7090 and IBM 7094)
    • CTSS (The Compatible Time-Sharing System developed at MIT's Computation Center)
    • RTOS/360 (Real Time Operating System, run on 5 NASA custom System/360/75s. A mash up by the Federal Systems Division of the MFT system management, PCP basic kernel and file system, with MVT task management and FSD custom real time kernel extensions and error management. The pinnacle of OS/360 development.)
    • MTS (Michigan Terminal System for IBM System/360)
    • TSS/360 (Time Sharing System for IBM System/360)
    • MUSIC/SP (developed by McGill University for IBM System/370)
    • IJMON (A Bootable serial I/O monitor for loading programs for IBM 1400 and IBM 1800.)
  • IBM 8100
    • DPCX (Distributed Processing Control eXecutive)
    • DPPX (Distributed Processing Programming Executive)
  • IBM PC and successors on x86 architecture
    • PC DOS / IBM DOS
      • PC DOS 1.x, 2.x, 3.x (developed jointly with Microsoft)
      • IBM DOS 4.x, 5.0 (developed jointly with Microsoft)
      • PC DOS 6.x, 7, 2000
    • OS/2
      • OS/2 1.x (developed jointly with Microsoft)
      • OS/2 2.x
      • OS/2 Warp V3
      • OS/2 Warp V4
      • eComStation (Warp 4.5/Workspace on Demand, rebundled by Serenity Systems International)

[edit] International Computers Limited

  • J and MultiJob for the System 4 series mainframes
  • GEORGE 2/3/4 GEneral ORGanisational Environment, used by ICL 1900 series mainframes
  • Executive, used on the 290x range of minicomputers
  • TME, used on the ME29 minicomputer
  • ICL VME, including early variants VME/B VME/K, appearing on the ICL 2900 Series and Series 39 mainframes

[edit] LynuxWorks (originally Lynx Real-time Systems)

[edit] Micrium Inc.

  • MicroC/OS-II (Small pre-emptive priority based multi-tasking kernel)

[edit] Microsoft

[edit] MontaVista Software

[edit] NCR Corporation

  • TMX - Transaction Management eXecutive

[edit] Novell

  • NetWare network operating system providing high-performance network services. Has been superseded by Open Enterprise Server line, which can be based on NetWare or Linux to provide the same set of services.
  • Open Enterprise Server, the successor to NetWare.

[edit] Quadros Systems

  • RTXC Quadros RTOS proprietary C-based RTOS used in embedded systems

[edit] QANTEL

  • BEST - Business Executive System for Timesharing

[edit] RCA

  • TSOS, first OS supporting virtual addressing of the main storage and support for both timeshare and batch interface

[edit] RoweBots

[edit] SCO / The SCO Group

  • Xenix, Unix System III based distribution for the Intel 8086/8088 architecture
  • Xenix 286, Unix System V Release 2 based distribution for the Intel 80286 architecture
  • Xenix 386, Unix System V Release 2 based distribution for the Intel 80386 architecture
  • SCO Unix, SCO UNIX System V/386 was the first volume commercial product licensed by AT&T to use the UNIX System trademark (1989). Derived from AT&T System V Release 3.2 with an infusion of Xenix device drivers and utilities plus most of the SVR4 features
  • SCO Open Desktop, the first 32-bit graphical user interface for UNIX Systems running on Intel processor-based computers. Based on SCO Unix
  • SCO OpenServer 5, AT&T UNIX System V Release 3 based
  • UnixWare 2.x, based on AT&T System V Release 4.2MP
  • UnixWare 7, UnixWare 2 kernel plus parts of 3.2v5 (UnixWare 2 + OpenServer 5 = UnixWare 7). Referred to by SCO as SVR5
  • SCO OpenServer 6, SVR5 (UnixWare 7) based kernel with SCO OpenServer 5 application and binary compatibility, system administration, and user environments[1][2]

[edit] SDS (Scientific Data Systems)

  • CP Control Program. SDS later acquired by Xerox, then Honeywell.

[edit] SEL (Systems Engineering Laboratories)

  • Real Time Monitor (RTM)
  • MPX-32

[edit] TRON Project

[edit] Unicoi Systems

  • Fusion RTOS highly prolific, license free Real-time operating system.
  • DSPOS was the original project which would become the royalty free Fusion RTOS.

[edit] Unisys

[edit] UNIVAC (later Unisys)

[edit] Wavecom

[edit] Wang Laboratories

  • 2200T Wang BASIC based system for the multi-user, 2200T systems. Products included a system called Personal Computer before the term was made more popular with IBM products.
  • 2200VP/MVP Wang BASIC based system for the higher performance, 2200VP/MVP multi-user systems. Contained sophisticated micro-code programming for high performance operation.
  • WPS Wang Word Processing System. Micro-code based system. Very clever and productive system developed by Harold Kaplow while at Wang. Eventually phased out by the PC and Word Perfect.
  • OIS Wang Office Information System. Successor to the WPS. Combined the WPS and VP/MVP systems. Harold Kaplow was its principal architect. Eventually phased out by the 2200VS.
  • 2200VS IBM assembler instruction set microcode emulation. Supported the Wang 2200VS high-performance, multi-user systems. Designed to be a COBOL developers dream machine. Included some of the OIS operating system code. Eventually phased out by the UNIX operating system.

[edit] Wind River Systems

  • VxWorks Small footprint, scalable, high-performance RTO

[edit] Other

[edit] Lisp-based

[edit] Non-standard language-based

[edit] Other proprietary non-Unix-like

[edit] Other proprietary Unix-like and POSIX-compliant

[edit] Non-proprietary

[edit] Unix-like

[edit] Research Unix-like and other POSIX-compliant

[edit] Free/Open source Unix-like

[edit] Other Unix-like

  • TUNIS (University of Toronto)

[edit] Non-Unix-like

[edit] Research non-Unix-like

[edit] Free/Open source non-Unix-like

  • FullPliant (programming language-based)
  • FreeDOS (open source DOS variant)
  • FreeVMS (open source VMS variant)
  • Haiku (open source inspired by BeOS, under development)
  • ReactOS (Windows NT-compatible OS, in early development since 2001)
  • osFree (open source OS/2 implementation)
  • OZONE (object-oriented)

[edit] Disk Operating Systems

Main article: DOS

[edit] Network

Main article: Network operating system

[edit] Web operating systems

Main article: Web operating system

[edit] Generic/commodity and other

[edit] For Elektronika BK

  • ANDOS
  • AO-DOS
  • BASIS
  • CSI-DOS
  • DOSB10
  • DX-DOS
  • FA-DOS
  • HC-DOS
  • KMON
  • MicroDOS
  • MK-DOS
  • NORD
  • NORTON-BK
  • RAMON
  • PascalDOS
  • RT-11
    • ROM embedded
    • RT-11SJ
    • OS BK-11 (RT-11 version)
  • Turbo-DOS
  • BKUNIX
  • OS/A WASP

[edit] Hobby

[edit] Embedded

[edit] Personal digital assistants (PDAs)

[edit] Digital media players

[edit] Robots

[edit] Smartphones

[edit] Routers

[edit] Microcontrollers, Real-time

[edit] Capability-based

[edit] LEGO Mindstorms

[edit] See also

[edit] Category links

[edit] References

  1. ^ "SCO History by William Bader". http://williambader.com/museum/dell/xenixhistory.html. Retrieved 2008-04-02. 
  2. ^ "Milestones in The History of The SCO Group". http://www.sco.com/company/history.html. Retrieved 2008-04-02. 
  3. ^ Jari OS homesite with documentation and sources [1]
  4. ^ a b Capability-Based Computer Systems
  5. ^ Fujitsu Extended System Architecture (EXA) Operating System
  6. ^ http://mobius.sourceforge.net/index.php
  7. ^ Embedded OS's
  8. ^ Dave's Robotic Operating System

[edit] External links

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