List of operating systems

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List of operating systems.

Contents 1 The first operating systems 1.1 The first proprietary microcomputer operating systems 1.2 Unix-like and other POSIX-compliant systems 1.3 Generic/commodity, non-UNIX, and other 2 Hobby OS 3 Proprietary 3.1 Acorn 3.2 Amiga 3.3 Atari ST 3.4 Apple/Macintosh 3.5 Be Incorporated 3.6 Digital/Compaq/HP 3.7 IBM 3.8 Microsoft 3.9 Personal digital assistants (PDAs) 3.10 Microcontroller, embedded 4 Fictional operating systems 5 See also

[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
• 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

[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