Computer operating systems (OSes) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application programs on a computer, and the links needed to control...

This article presents a timeline of events in the history of computer operating systems from 1951 to the current day. For a narrative explaining the overall...

Mac operating systems were developed by Apple Inc. in a succession of two major series. In 1984, Apple debuted the operating system that is now known...

Other specialized classes of operating systems (special-purpose operating systems), such as embedded and real-time systems, exist for many applications...

tables provide a comparison of operating systems, of computer devices, as listing general and technical information for a number of widely used and currently...

This is a list of operating systems. Computer operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many...

The history of IBM mainframe operating systems is significant within the history of mainframe operating systems, because of IBM's long-standing position...

The most numerous type of device with an operating system are embedded systems. Not all embedded systems have operating systems, instead running their...

hybridization of the 2-in-1 PCs. Mobile operating systems combine features of a desktop computer operating system with other features useful for mobile...

is a family of IBM virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible systems, including...

The version history of the Android mobile operating system began with the public release of its first beta on November 5, 2007. The first commercial version...

Operating System, also known as the Pick System or simply Pick, is a demand-paged, multi-user, virtual memory, time-sharing computer operating system...

OpenBeOS, is a free and open-source operating system for personal computers. It is a community-driven continuation of BeOS and aims to be binary-compatible...

that operates the functions in the network layer (layer 3). Notable network operating systems include: Cisco IOS, a family of network operating systems used...

Systems acquired Belgian software company Eonic Systems, the developer of Virtuoso. In November 2015, Wind River Systems renamed the operating system...

operating system of macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, audioOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It previously existed as an independent open-source operating...

An embedded operating system (EOS) is an operating system designed specifically for embedded computer systems. These systems aim to enhance functionality...

open-source capability-based operating system developed by Google. In contrast to Google's Linux-based operating systems such as ChromeOS and Android...

supercomputer operating system is an operating system intended for supercomputers. Since the end of the 20th century, supercomputer operating systems have undergone...

Started section of the Oberon Wikibook. Similar user Interfaces have yet to appear in more commonplace operating systems. Rob Pike's Acme system for Plan 9...

There are a number of Unix-like operating systems based on or descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) series of Unix variant options. The...

A distributed operating system is system software over a collection of independent software, networked, communicating, and physically separate computational...

appropriately used only for older generations of operating systems.[citation needed] Disk operating systems for mainframes, minicomputers, microprocessors...

FLEX is a discontinued single-tasking operating system developed by Technical Systems Consultants (TSC) of West Lafayette, Indiana, for the Motorola 6800...

Robot Operating System (ROS or ros) is an open-source robotics middleware suite. Although ROS is not an operating system (OS) but a set of software frameworks...

ed. (2001). "1 The evolution of operating systems". Classic operating systems: from batch processing to distributed systems. New York: Springer-Verlag....

research of Bell Labs into operating systems, languages, on-the-fly compilers, graphics, security, networking and portability. The name of the operating system...

Comparison of BSD operating systems Comparison of Microsoft Windows versions List of operating systems Comparison of file systems Comparison of operating systems...

Copland is an operating system developed by Apple for Macintosh computers between 1994 and 1996 but never commercially released. It was intended to be...

Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz and James Peterson is a classic textbook on operating systems. It is often called the "dinosaur book"...