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This is a list of operating systems. Computer 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. Criteria for inclusion is notability, as shown either through an existing Wikipedia article or citation to a reliable source.

Proprietary

Acorn Computers

Amazon

Amiga Inc.

Amstrad

Apple Inc.

Apollo Computer, Hewlett-Packard

  • Domain/OS – One of the first network-based systems. Run on Apollo/Domain hardware. Later bought by Hewlett-Packard.

Atari

BAE Systems

Be Inc.

Bell Labs

  • Unix ("Ken's new system," for its creator (Ken Thompson), officially Unics and then Unix, the prototypic operating system created in Bell Labs in 1969 that formed the basis for the Unix family of operating systems)
    • UNIX Time-Sharing System v1
    • UNIX Time-Sharing System v2
    • UNIX Time-Sharing System v3
    • UNIX Time-Sharing System v4
    • UNIX Time-Sharing System v5
    • UNIX Time-Sharing System v6
      • MINI-UNIX
      • PWB/UNIX
        • USG
          • CB Unix
    • UNIX Time-Sharing System v7 (It is from Version 7 Unix (and, to an extent, its descendants listed below) that almost all Unix-based and Unix-like operating systems descend.)
    • UNIX Time-Sharing System v8
    • UNIX Time-Sharing System v9
    • UNIX Time-Sharing System v10

Non-Unix Operating Systems:

Burroughs Corporation, Unisys

Commodore International

Control Data Corporation

Lower 3000 series

  • SCOPE (Supervisory Control Of Program Execution)[1]

Upper 3000 series

  • SCOPE (Supervisory Control Of Program Execution)[2]

6x00 and related Cyber

  • Chippewa Operating System (COS)[4]
    • MACE (Mansfield and Cahlander Executive)
      • Kronos (Kronographic OS)[5]
        • NOS (Network Operating System)[6][7]
          • NOS/VE (NOS Virtual Environment)
    • SCOPE (Supervisory Control Of Program Execution)[8]
      • NOS/BE NOS Batch Environment[9]
  • SIPROS (Simultaneous Processing Operating System)[10]

CloudMosa

  • Puffin OS

Convergent Technologies

Cromemco

  • Cromemco DOS (CDOS) – a Disk Operating system compatible with CP/M
  • Cromix – a multitasking, multi-user, Unix-like OS for Cromemco microcomputers with Z80A and/or 68000 CPU

Data General

  • AOS for 16-bit Data General Eclipse computers and AOS/VS for 32-bit (MV series) Eclipses, MP/AOS for microNOVA-based computers
  • DG/UX
  • RDOS Real-time Disk Operating System, with variants: RTOS and DOS (not related to PC DOS, MS-DOS etc.)

Datapoint

  • CTOS Cassette Tape Operating System for the Datapoint 2200[11]
  • DOS Disk Operating System for the Datapoint 2200, 5500, and 1100[12]

DDC-I, Inc.

  • Deos – Time & Space Partitioned RTOS, Certified to DO-178B, Level A since 1998
  • HeartOS – POSIX-based Hard Real-Time Operating System

Digital Research, Inc.

  • CP/M
    • CP/M CP/M for Intel 8080/8085 and Zilog Z80
      • Personal CP/M, a refinement of CP/M
      • CP/M Plus with BDOS 3.0
    • CP/M-68K CP/M for Motorola 68000
    • CP/M-8000 CP/M for Zilog Z8000
    • CP/M-86 CP/M for Intel 8088/8086
      • CP/M-86 Plus
      • Personal CP/M-86
    • MP/M Multi-user version of CP/M-80
      • MP/M II
    • MP/M-86 Multi-user version of CP/M-86
      • MP/M 8-16, a dual-processor variant of MP/M for 8086 and 8080 CPUs.
    • Concurrent CP/M, the successor of CP/M-80 and MP/M-80
    • Concurrent CP/M-86, the successor of CP/M-86 and MP/M-86
      • Concurrent CP/M 8-16, a dual-processor variant of Concurrent CP/M for 8086 and 8080 CPUs.
    • Concurrent CP/M-68K, a variant for the 68000
  • DOS
    • Concurrent DOS, the successor of Concurrent CP/M-86 with PC-MODE
    • Concurrent DOS 68K, a port of Concurrent DOS to Motorola 68000 CPUs with DOS source code portability capabilities
    • FlexOS 1.0 – 2.34, a derivative of Concurrent DOS 286
      • FlexOS 186, a variant of FlexOS for terminals
      • FlexOS 286, a variant of FlexOS for hosts
        • Siemens S5-DOS/MT, an industrial control system based on FlexOS
        • IBM 4680 OS, a POS operating system based on FlexOS
        • IBM 4690 OS, a POS operating system based on FlexOS
      • FlexOS 386, a later variant of FlexOS for hosts
      • FlexOS 68K, a derivative of Concurrent DOS 68K
    • Multiuser DOS, the successor of Concurrent DOS 386
      • CCI Multiuser DOS
      • Datapac Multiuser DOS
        • Datapac System Manager, a derivative of Datapac Multiuser DOS
      • IMS Multiuser DOS
        • IMS REAL/32, a derivative of Multiuser DOS
          • IMS REAL/NG, the successor of REAL/32
    • DOS Plus 1.1 – 2.1, a single-user, multi-tasking system derived from Concurrent DOS 4.1 – 5.0
    • DR-DOS 3.31 – 6.0, a single-user, single-tasking native DOS derived from Concurrent DOS 6.0
      • Novell PalmDOS 1.0
      • Novell "Star Trek"
      • Novell DOS 7, a single-user, multi-tasking system derived from DR DOS
      • Caldera OpenDOS 7.01
      • Caldera DR-DOS 7.02 and higher

Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

ENEA AB

  • OSE – Flexible, small footprint, high-performance RTOS for control processors

Fujitsu

GEC Computers Ltd

General Electric, Honeywell, Bull

Google

Android OS on the Samsung Galaxy Z smartphones
  • ChromiumOS is an open source operating system development version of ChromeOS. Both operating systems are based on the Linux kernel.
    • ChromeOS is designed to work exclusively with web applications, though has been updated to run Android apps with full support for Google Play Store. Announced on July 7, 2009, ChromeOS is currently publicly available and was released summer 2011. The ChromeOS source code was released on November 19, 2009, under the BSD license as ChromiumOS.
    • Container-Optimized OS (COS) is an operating system that is optimized for running Docker containers, based on ChromiumOS.[13]
  • Android is an operating system for mobile devices. It consists of Android Runtime (userland) with Linux (kernel), with its Linux kernel modified to add drivers for mobile device hardware and to remove unused Vanilla Linux drivers.
  • gLinux, a Linux distribution that Google uses internally
  • Fuchsia is a capability-based real-time operating system (RTOS) scalable to universal devices, in early development, from the tiniest embedded hardware, wristwatches, tablets to the largest personal computers. Unlike ChromeOS and Android, it is not based on the Linux kernel, but instead began on a new microkernel called "Zircon", derived from "Little Kernel".
  • Wear OS a version of Google's Android operating system designed for smartwatches and other wearables.

Green Hills Software

Harris Computer Systems

  • Vulcan O/S – Proprietary O/S for Harris Computer Systems (HCX)
  • CX/UX – Proprietary UNIX based OS for Harris' computers (MCX)

Heathkit, Zenith Data Systems

Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  • HP Multi-Programming Executive (MPE, MPE/XL, and MPE/iX) – runs on HP 3000 and HP e3000 mini-computers
  • HP-UX – runs on HP9000 and Itanium servers (from small to mainframe-class computers)

Honeywell

Huawei

Intel Corporation

  • iRMX – real-time operating system originally created to support the Intel 8080 and 8086 processor families in embedded applications.
  • ISIS, ISIS-II – "Intel Systems Implementation Supervisor" was an environment for development of software within the Intel microprocessor family in the early 1980s 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, debugger, compilers for PL/M, a BASIC interpreter, etc. and allowed file management through a console.
  • iMAX 432 - operating system for systems based on Intel's iAPX 432 architecture.

IBM

On early mainframes: 1410, 7010, 704, 709, 7090, 7094, 7040, 7044, 7030

  • BESYS – for the IBM 7090
  • Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) – developed at MIT's Computation Center for use on a modified IBM 7094
  • FORTRAN Monitor System (FMS) – for the IBM 709 and 7090
  • GM OS & GM-NAA I/O – for the IBM 704
  • IBSYS – tape based operating system for IBM 7090 and IBM 7094
  • 7040/7044 Operating System (16/32K) - 7040-PR-150
  • IJMON – A bootable serial I/O monitor for loading programs for the IBM 1400 series[citation needed]
  • 1410 Processor Operating System (PR-155) for the 1410 and 7010
  • SHARE Operating System (SOS) – for the IBM 704 and 709
  • University of Michigan Executive System (UMES) – for the IBM 704, 709, and 7090)

On S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes

  • OS/360 and successors on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes
    • OS/360 (first official OS targeted for the System/360 architecture)
      • PCP (Primary Control Program, a kernel and a ground breaking automatic space allocating file system)
      • MFT (original Multi-programming with a Fixed number of Tasks, replaced by MFT II)
      • MFT II (Multi-Programming with a Fixed number of Tasks, had up to 15 fixed size application partitions, plus partitions for system tasks, initially defined at boot time but redefinable by operator command)
      • MVT (Multi-Programming with a Variable number of Tasks, had up to 15 application regions defined dynamically, plus additional regions for system tasks)
      • M65MP (MVT with support for a multiprocessor 360/65)
    • OS/VS (port of OS/360 targeted for the System/370 virtual memory architecture (OS/370 is not the correct name for OS/VS1 and OS/VS2.) OS/VS has the following variations:
      • OS/VS1 (Operating System/Virtual Storage 1, Virtual-memory version of OS/360 MFT II)
        • OS/VS1 Basic Programming Extensions (BPE) adds device support and VM handshaking
      • OS/VS2 (Operating System/Virtual Storage 2, Virtual-memory version of OS/360 MVT)
        • OS/VS2 R1 (Called Single Virtual Storage (SVS), Virtual-memory version of OS/360 MVT but without multiprocessing support)
        • OS/VS2 R2 through R3.8 (called Multiple Virtual Storage, MVS, eliminated most need for VS1).
          • MVS/SE (MVS System Extensions)
    • MVS/SP (MVS System Product) V1
    • MVS/370 refers to OS/VS2 MVS, MVS/SE and MVS/SP Version 1
    • MVS/XA (MVS/SP V2, supports S/370 Extended Architecture, 31-bit addressing)
    • MVS/ESA (MVS supported Enterprise Systems Architecture, horizontal addressing extensions: data only address spaces called Dataspaces)
      • MVS/SP V3
      • MVS/ESA SP V4 (a Unix environment was available for MVS/ESA SP V4R3)
      • MVS/ESA SP V5 (the UNIX environment was bundled in this and all subsequent versions)
    • OS/390 replacement for MVS/ESA SP V5 with some products bundled
    • z/OS z/Architecture replacement for OS/390 with 64-bit virtual addressing
    • Phoenix/MVS (Developed at Cambridge University)
  • DOS/360 and successors on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor 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), multi-programming system with up to 3 partitions, first commonly available OS for System/360)
      • 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 (also known as VSE, upgrade of DOS/VS, up to 14 fixed size processing partitions )
      • VSE/Advanced Functions (VSE/AF) - Additional functionality for DOS/VSE
    • VSE/SP (program product including DOS/VSE and VSE/AF)
    • VSE/ESA, replaces VSE/SP, supports ESA/370 and ESA/390 with 31-bit addresses
    • z/VSE (latest version of the four decades old DOS lineage, supports 64-bit addresses, multiprocessing, multiprogramming, SNA, TCP/IP, and some virtual machine features in support of Linux workloads)
  • CP/CMS (Control Program/Cambridge Monitor System) and successors on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes
    • CP-40/CMS (for System/360 Model 40)
    • CP-67/CMS (for System/360 Model 67)
    • Virtual Machine Facility/370 (VM/370) - the CP virtual machine hypervisor, Conversational Monitor System (CMS) operating system and supporting facilities for System/370 (24-bit addresses)
      • VM/370 Basic System Extensions Program Product (VM/BSE, AKA BSEPP) is an enhancement to VM/370
      • VM/370 System Extensions Program Product (VM/SE, AKA SEPP) is an enhancement to VM/370 that includes the facilities of VM/BSE
    • Virtual Machine/System Product (VM/SP) replaces VM/370, VM/BSE and VM/SE.
    • Virtual Machine/Extended Architecture (VM/XA) refers to three versions of VM that support System/370 Extended Architecture (S/370-XA) with 31-bit virtual addresses
      • Virtual Machine/Extended architecture Migration Aid (VM/XA MA) - Intended for MVS/370 to MVS/XA migration
      • Virtual Machine/Extended Architecture Systems Facility (VM/XA SF) - new release of VM/XA MA with additional functionality
      • Virtual Machine/Extended Architecture System Product (VM/XA SP) - Replaces VM/SP, VM/SP HPO and VM/XA SF
    • VM/ESA (Virtual Machine/Enterprise Systems Architecture, supports S/370, ESA/370 and ESA/390)
    • z/VM (z/Architecture version of the VM OS with 64-bit addressing)
  • TPF Line (Transaction Processing Facility) on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes (largely used by airlines)
    • ACP (Airline Control Program)
    • TPF (Transaction Processing Facility)
    • z/TPF (z/Architecture extension)
  • Unix-like on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes
  • Others on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes:
    • BOS/360 (Basic Operating System)
    • Distributed Processing Programming Executive/370 (DPPX/370) a port of DDPX from 8100 to S/370.
    • MTS (Michigan Terminal System, developed by a group of universities in the US, Canada, and the UK for the IBM System/360 Model 67, System/370 series, and compatible mainframes)
    • RTOS/360 (IBM's Real Time Operating System, ran on 5 NASA custom System/360-75s)[14]
    • TOS/360 (Tape Operating System)
    • TSS/360 (IBM's Time Sharing System)
    • MUSIC/SP (developed by McGill University for IBM System/370)
    • ORVYL and WYLBUR (developed by Stanford University for IBM System/360)

On PC and Intel x86 based architectures

On other hardware platforms

  • IBM Series/1
    • EDX (Event Driven Executive)
    • RPS (Realtime Programming System)
    • CPS (Control Programming Support, subset of RPS)
    • SerIX (Unix on Series/1)
  • IBM 1130
    • DMS (Disk Monitor System)
  • IBM 1800
    • TSX (Time Sharing eXecutive)
    • MPX (Multi Programming eXecutive)
  • IBM 8100
    • DPCX (Distributed Processing Control eXecutive)
    • DPPX (Distributed Processing Programming Executive)
  • IBM System/3
    • DMS (Disk Management System)
  • IBM System/34, IBM System/36
    • SSP (System Support Program)
  • IBM System/38
    • CPF (Control Program Facility)
  • IBM System/88
  • IBM AS/400, iSeries, System i, IBM Power Systems
    • IBM i (previously known as OS/400 and i5/OS, descendant of System/38 CPF, includes System/36 SSP and AIX environment)
  • UNIX on IBM RT PC
    • AOS (a BSD Unix version, not related to Data General AOS)
    • AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, a System V Unix version)
  • UNIX on POWER ISA, PowerPC, and Power ISA
    • AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, a System V Unix version)
  • OthersPhysics
    • Workplace OS (a microkernel based operating system including OS/2, developed and canceled in the 1990s)
    • K42 (open-source research operating system on PowerPC or x86 based cache-coherent multiprocessor systems)
    • Dynix (developed by Sequent, and used for IBM NUMA-Q too)

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 1900 and 290x range of minicomputers. A modified version of Executive was also used as part of GEORGE 3 and 4.
  • TME – used on the ME29 minicomputer
  • ICL VME – including early variants VME/B and VME/2900, appearing on the ICL 2900 Series and Series 39 mainframes, implemented in S3
  • VME/K – on early smaller 2900s

Jide

Jolla

KaiOS

Lynx Real-time Systems, LynuxWorks, Lynx Software Technologies

Meizu

  • Flyme OS

Microsoft Corporation

MITS

MontaVista

Motorola

NCR Corporation

  • TMX – Transaction Management eXecutive
  • IMOS – Interactive Multiprogramming Operating System (circa 1978), for the NCR Century 8200 series minicomputers[citation needed]
  • VRX – Virtual Resource eXecutive

NeXT

Nintendo

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.
  • UnixWare
    • Novell "SuperNOS" – a never released merge of NetWare and UnixWare
  • Novell "Corsair"
    • Novell "Exposé"
  • Open Enterprise Server – the successor to NetWare

Open Mobile Platform

  • Aurora OS – the successor to Sailfish OS (not to be confused with a different Aurora OS)

Quadros Systems

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

RCA

  • Time Sharing Operating System (TSOS) – first OS supporting virtual addressing of the main storage and support for both timeshare and batch interface

RoweBots

  • DSPnano RTOS – 8/16 Bit Ultra Tiny Embedded Linux Compatible RTOS

Samsung Electronics

  • Bada
  • Tizen is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, a project within the Linux Foundation and is governed by a Technical Steering Group (TSG) while controlled by Samsung and backed by Intel. Tizen works on a wide range of Samsung devices including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, PCs and wearable.
  • Orsay
  • One UI - Android skin

Scientific Data Systems (SDS)

SCO, SCO Group[15]

  • 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
  • SCO OpenServer 6, SVR5 (UnixWare 7) based kernel with SCO OpenServer 5 application and binary compatibility, system administration, and user environments
  • UnixWare
    • 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

Silicon Laboratories (formerly Micrium Inc.)

  • Micrium OS - customized μC/OS-III for Silicon Laboratories's SoC products

Sinclair Research

  • Sinclair BASIC was used in the 8-bit home computers from Sinclair Research and Timex Sinclair. It was included in the ROM, and the computers booted to the Basic interpreter. Various versions exist, with the latter ones supporting disk drive operations.

Sony

SYSGO

  • PikeOS – a certified real time operating system for safety and security critical embedded systems

Tandem Computers, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  • NonStop OS – runs on HPE's NonStop line of servers

Tandy Corporation

  • TRSDOS – A floppy-disk-oriented OS supplied by Tandy/Radio Shack for their TRS-80 Z80-based line of personal computers. Eventually renamed as LS-DOS or LDOS.
  • Color BASIC – A ROM-based OS created by Microsoft for the TRS-80 Color Computer.[16]
  • NewDos/80 – A third-party OS for Tandy's TRS-80 personal computers.
  • DeskMate – Operating system created by Tandy Corporation and introduced with the Tandy 1000 computer.[citation needed]

TCSC (later NCSC)

  • Edos – enhanced version of IBM's DOS/360 (and later DOS/VS and DOS/VSE) operating system for System/360 and System/370 IBM mainframes

Texas Instruments

  • TI-RTOS Kernel – Real-time operating system for TI's embedded devices.

TRON Project

UNIVAC, Unisys

  • EXEC I
  • EXEC II
  • EXEC 8/OS 1100/OS 2200
  • VS/9, successor to RCA TSOS

Wang Laboratories

  • WPS Wang Word Processing System. Micro-code based system.
  • OIS Wang Office Information System. Successor to the WPS. Combined the WPS and VP/MVP systems.

Weston Embedded Solutions

  • μC/OS-II – a small pre-emptive priority based multi-tasking kernel
  • μC/OS-III – a small pre-emptive priority based multi-tasking kernel, with unlimited number of tasks and priorities, and round-robin scheduling
  • Cesium RTOS - commercial continuation of Micrium's μC/OS-III forked from the open-sources release

Wind River Systems

  • VxWorks – Small footprint, scalable, high-performance RTOS for embedded microprocessor based systems.[17]

Zilog

Other

Lisp-based

For Elektronika BK

Non-standard language-based

  • Pilot operating system – written in the Mesa language and used on Xerox Star workstations.
  • PERQ Operating System (POS) – written in PERQ Pascal.

Other proprietary non-Unix-like

  • Эльбрус-1 (Elbrus-1) and Эльбрус-2 – used for application, job control, system programming,[18] implemented in uЭль-76 (AL-76).
  • EOS – developed by ETA Systems for use in their ETA-10 line of supercomputers
  • EMBOS – developed by Elxsi for use on their mini-supercomputers
  • GCOS – a proprietary Operating System originally developed by General Electric
  • MAI Basic Four – An OS implementing Business Basic from MAI Systems.
  • Michigan Terminal System – Developed by a group of universities in the US, Canada, and the UK for use on the IBM System/360 Model 67, the System/370 series, and compatible mainframes
  • MUSIC/SP – an operating system developed for the S/370, running normally under VM
  • OS ES – an operating system for ES EVM
  • PC-MOS/386 – DOS-like, but multiuser/multitasking
  • Prolog-Dispatcher – used to control Soviet Buran space shuttle.
  • SINTRAN III – an operating system used with Norsk Data computers.
  • SkyOS – commercial desktop OS for PCs
  • SODA – used by the Odra 1204 computers.[19]
  • THEOS
  • TSX-32 – a 32-bit operating system for x86 platform.
  • TX990/TXDS, DX10 and DNOS – proprietary operating systems for TI-990 minicomputers

Other proprietary Unix-like and POSIX-compliant

Non-proprietary

Unix or Unix-like

  • MINIX (study OS developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in the Netherlands)
  • BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution, a variant of Unix for DEC VAX hardware)
    • FreeBSD (one of the outgrowths of UC Regents' abandonment of CSRG's 'BSD Unix')
      • DragonFlyBSD, forked from FreeBSD 4.8
      • MidnightBSD, forked from FreeBSD 6.1
      • GhostBSD
      • TrueOS (previously known as PC-BSD), made for desktop/laptop usage, now discontinued
      • NomadBSD, a project aiming to tend FreeBSD to desktop/laptop needs
    • NetBSD (an embedded device BSD variant)
      • OpenBSD forked from NetBSD
        • Bitrig forked from OpenBSD, discontinued
        • FuguIta,[20] a live OpenBSD fork by a Japanese developer[21]
    • Darwin, created by Apple using code from NeXTSTEP, FreeBSD, and NetBSD
  • GNU (also known as GNU/Hurd)
  • Linux (see also List of Linux distributions) (alleged to be GNU/Linux[22] see GNU/Linux naming controversy)
  • Redox (written in Rust)[24]
  • OpenSolaris
    • illumos, contains original Unix (SVR4) code derived from the OpenSolaris (discontinued by Oracle in favor of Solaris 11 Express)
      • OpenIndiana, operates under the illumos Foundation. Uses the illumos kernel, which is a derivative of OS/Net, which is basically an OpenSolaris/Solaris kernel with the bulk of the drivers, core libraries, and basic utilities.
      • Nexenta OS, based on the illumos kernel with Ubuntu packages
      • SmartOS, an illumos distribution for cloud computing with Kernel-based Virtual Machine integration.
  • RTEMS (Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems)
  • Syllable Desktop
  • VSTa
  • Plurix (or Tropix[25]) (by Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ)
  • TUNIS (University of Toronto)
  • Xv6 - a simple Unix-like teaching operating system from MIT
  • SerenityOS - aims to be a modern Unix-like operating system, yet with a look and feel that emulates 1990s operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and the classic Mac OS.
  • openEuler - open-source community version of EulerOS

Non-Unix

Research

Unix or Unix-like

  • Plan 9 from Bell Labs – distributed OS developed at Bell Labs, based on original Unix design principles yet functionally different and going much further
    • Inferno – distributed OS derived from Plan 9, originally from Bell Labs
    • 9front, a derivative open-source project[27] made to resurrect Plan 9[28] to passionate developers
  • Research Unix[29][30]

Non-Unix

  • Amoeba – research OS by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  • Barrelfish
  • Croquet
  • EROS – microkernel, capability-based
    • CapROS – microkernel EROS successor
  • Harmony – realtime, multitasking, multiprocessing message-passing system developed at the National Research Council of Canada.
  • HelenOS – research and experimental operating system
  • House – Haskell User's Operating System and Environment, research OS written in Haskell and C
  • ILIOS – Research OS designed for routing
  • L4 – second generation microkernel
  • Mach – from OS kernel research at Carnegie Mellon University; see NeXTSTEP
  • Nemesis – Cambridge University research OS – detailed quality of service abilities
  • Singularity – experimental OS from Microsoft Research written in managed code to be highly dependable
  • Spring – research OS from Sun Microsystems
  • THE multiprogramming system – by Dijkstra in 1968, at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, introduced the first form of software-based memory segmentation, freeing programmers from being forced to use actual physical locations
  • Thoth – realtime, multiprocess message-passing system developed at the University of Waterloo.
  • V – from Stanford, early 1980s[31]
  • Verve – OS designed by Microsoft Research to be verified end-to-end for type safety and memory safety
  • Xinu – Study OS developed by Douglas E. Comer in the United States[32]

Disk operating systems (DOS)

Main page: Software:Disk operating system
  • 86-DOS (developed at Seattle Computer Products by Tim Paterson for the new Intel 808x CPUs; licensed to Microsoft, became PC DOS/MS-DOS. Also known by its working title QDOS.)
    • PC DOS (IBM's DOS variant, developed jointly with Microsoft, versions 1.0–7.0, 2000, 7.10)
    • MS-DOS (Microsoft's DOS variant for OEM, developed jointly with IBM, versions 1.x–6.22 Microsoft's now abandoned DOS variant)
  • Concurrent CP/M-86 3.1 (BDOS 3.1) with PC-MODE (Digital Research's successor of CP/M-86 and MP/M-86)
    • Concurrent DOS 3.1-4.1 (BDOS 3.1-4.1)
      • Concurrent PC DOS 3.2 (BDOS 3.2) (Concurrent DOS variant for IBM compatible PCs)
        • DOS Plus 1.1, 1.2 (BDOS 4.1), 2.1 (BDOS 5.0) (single-user, multi-tasking system derived from Concurrent DOS 4.1-5.0)
      • Concurrent DOS 8-16 (dual-processor variant of Concurrent DOS for 8086 and 8080 CPUs)
      • Concurrent DOS 286 1.x
        • FlexOS 1.00-2.34 (derivative of Concurrent DOS 286)
          • FlexOS 186 (variant of FlexOS for terminals)
          • FlexOS 286 (variant of FlexOS for hosts)
            • Siemens S5-DOS/MT (industrial control system based on FlexOS)
            • IBM 4680 OS (POS operating system based on FlexOS)
            • IBM 4690 OS (POS operating system based on FlexOS)
          • FlexOS 386 (later variant of FlexOS for hosts)
      • Concurrent DOS 386 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 (BDOS 5.0-6.2)
        • Concurrent DOS 386/MGE (Concurrent DOS 386 variant with advanced graphics terminal capabilities)
        • Multiuser DOS 5.0, 5.01, 5.1 (BDOS 6.3-6.6) (successor of Concurrent DOS 386)
          • CCI Multiuser DOS 5.0-7.22 (up to BDOS 6.6)
          • Datapac Multiuser DOS
            • Datapac System Manager 7 (derivative of Datapac Multiuser DOS)
          • IMS Multiuser DOS 5.1, 7.0, 7.1 (BDOS 6.6-6.7)
            • IMS REAL/32 7.50, 7.51, 7.52, 7.53, 7.54, 7.60, 7.61, 7.62, 7.63, 7.70, 7.71, 7.72, 7.73, 7.74, 7.80, 7.81, 7.82, 7.83, 7.90, 7.91, 7.92, 7.93, 7.94, 7.95 (BDOS 6.8 and higher) (derivative of Multiuser DOS)
              • IMS REAL/NG (successor of REAL/32)
      • Concurrent DOS XM 5.0, 5.2, 6.0, 6.2 (BDOS 5.0-6.2) (real-mode variant of Concurrent DOS with EEMS support)
        • DR DOS 3.31, 3.32, 3.33, 3.34, 3.35, 5.0, 6.0 (BDOS 6.0-7.1) single-user, single-tasking native DOS derived from Concurrent DOS 6.0)
          • Novell PalmDOS 1 (BDOS 7.0)
          • Novell DR DOS "StarTrek"
          • Novell DOS 7 (single-user, multi-tasking system derived from DR DOS, BDOS 7.2)
            • Novell DOS 7 updates 1-10 (BDOS 7.2)
              • Caldera OpenDOS 7.01 (BDOS 7.2)
                • Enhanced DR-DOS 7.01.0x (BDOS 7.2)
                  • Dell Real Mode Kernel (DRMK)
            • Novell DOS 7 updates 11–15.2 (BDOS 7.2)
              • Caldera DR-DOS 7.02-7.03 (BDOS 7.3)
                • DR-DOS "WinBolt"
                • OEM DR-DOS 7.04-7.05 (BDOS 7.3)
                • OEM DR-DOS 7.06 (PQDOS)
                • OEM DR-DOS 7.07 (BDOS 7.4/7.7)
  • FreeDOS (open source DOS variant)
  • ProDOS (operating system for the Apple II series computers)
  • PTS-DOS (DOS variant by Russia n company Phystechsoft)
  • TurboDOS (Software 2000, Inc.) for Z80 and Intel 8086 processor-based systems
  • Multi-tasking user interfaces and environments for DOS

Network operating systems

Main page: Network operating system

Generic, commodity, and other

  • BLIS/COBOL
  • A2 formerly named Active Object System (AOS), and then Bluebottle (a concurrent and active object update to the Oberon operating system)
  • BS1000 by Siemens
  • BS2000 by Siemens, now BS2000/OSD from Fujitsu Siemens (formerly Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme)
  • BS3000 by Siemens (rebadging of Fujitsu's MSP operating system)[33]
  • Contiki for various, mostly 8-bit systems, including the Apple II series, the Atari 8-bit family, and some Commodore machines.
  • FLEX9 (by Technical Systems Consultants (TSC) for Motorola 6809 based machines; successor to FLEX, which was for Motorola 6800 CPUs)
  • Graphics Environment Manager (GEM) (windowing GUI for CP/M, DOS, and Atari TOS)
  • GEOS (popular windowing GUI for PC, Commodore, Apple computers)
  • JavaOS
  • JNode (Java New Operating System Design Effort), written 99% in Java (native compiled), provides own JVM and JIT compiler. Based on GNU Classpath.[34][35]
  • JX Java operating system that focuses on a flexible and robust operating system architecture developed as an open source system by the University of Erlangen.
  • KERNAL (default OS on Commodore 64)
  • MERLIN for the Corvus Concept
  • MorphOS (Amiga compatible)
  • MSP by Fujitsu (successor to OS-IV), now MSP/EX,[36] also known as Extended System Architecture (EXA), for 31-bit mode
  • NetWare (networking OS by Novell)
  • Oberon (operating system) (developed at ETH-Zürich by Niklaus Wirth et al.) for the Ceres and Chameleon workstation projects
  • OSD/XC by Fujitsu-Siemens (BS2000 ported to an emulation on a Sun SPARC platform)
  • OS-IV by Fujitsu (based on early versions of IBM's MVS)
  • Pick (often licensed and renamed)
  • PRIMOS by Prime Computer (sometimes spelled PR1MOS and PR1ME)
  • Sinclair QDOS (multitasking for the Sinclair QL computer)
  • SSB-DOS (by Technical Systems Consultants (TSC) for Smoke Signal Broadcasting; a variant of FLEX in most respects)
  • SymbOS (GUI based multitasking operating system for Z80 computers)
  • Symobi (GUI based modern micro-kernel OS for x86, ARM and PowerPC processors, developed by Miray Software; used and developed further at Technical University of Munich)
  • TripOS, 1978
  • TurboDOS (Software 2000, Inc.)
  • UCSD p-System (portable complete programming environment/operating system/virtual machine developed by a long running student project at UCSD; directed by Prof Kenneth Bowles; written in Pascal)
  • VOS by Stratus Technologies with strong influence from Multics
  • VOS3 by Hitachi for its IBM-compatible mainframes, based on IBM's MVS
  • VM2000 by Siemens
  • Visi On (first GUI for early PC machines; not commercially successful)
  • VPS/VM (IBM based, main operating system at Boston University for over 10 years.)

Hobby

Main page: Hobbyist operating system

Embedded

Mobile operating systems

Main page: Mobile operating system

Routers

Other embedded

LEGO Mindstorms

Capability-based

See also

Category links

References

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