• A distributed operating system is system software over a collection of independent software, networked, communicating, and physically separate computational...
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  • Amoeba is a distributed operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and others at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The aim of the Amoeba project...
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  • Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components...
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    their previous operating system, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, to a wider range of devices and networks. Inferno is a distributed operating system based on three...
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  • The V operating system (sometimes written V-System) is a discontinued microkernel distributed operating system that was developed by faculty and students...
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  • Sprite is an experimental Unix-like distributed operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley by John Ousterhout's research group...
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  • Schantz, R. E. 1986. The Cronus distributed operating system. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Making Distributed Systems Work (Amsterdam, Netherlands...
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  • 1996. Its charter was to build technologies for a next-generation operating system that would fulfill Bill Gates's vision of "information at your fingertips...
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  • Linux-based network operating system developed by Microsoft VyOS, an open source fork of the Vyatta routing package Distributed operating system FRRouting Interruptible...
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  • Helios is a discontinued Unix-like operating system for parallel computers. It was developed and published by Perihelion Software. Its primary architecture...
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    open-source distributed operating system, which was developed by researchers at ETH Zurich and Microsoft Research. The original motivation for the operating system...
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  • A mobile operating system is an operating system used for smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing...
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  • Watch watchOS Apple TV tvOS Embedded operating systems bridgeOS Apple Vision Pro visionOS Embedded operating systems A/ROSE iPod software (unnamed embedded...
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    Mullender, Pierre G. Jansen. Real Time in a Real Operating System Plan 9 is a distributed operating system, designed to make a network of heterogeneous and...
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  • designed. The difference between a distributed file system and a distributed data store is that a distributed file system allows files to be accessed using...
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    iPadOS are mobile operating systems, while Windows, macOS, and Linux are desktop operating systems. Linux is a free software distributed under the GNU General...
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  • A distributed control system (DCS) is a computerized control system for a process or plant usually with many control loops, in which autonomous controllers...
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  • Distributed kernel operating system based on the QNX operating system's distributed processing features known commercially as Transparent Distributed...
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  • Android is an operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen-based...
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  • MOSIX (category Distributed operating systems)
    MOSIX is a proprietary distributed operating system. Although early versions were based on older UNIX systems, since 1999 it focuses on Linux clusters...
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  • Operating System, also known as the Pick System or simply Pick, is a demand-paged, multi-user, virtual memory, time-sharing computer operating system...
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    supercomputer operating system is an operating system intended for supercomputers. Since the end of the 20th century, supercomputer operating systems have undergone...
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  • HarmonyOS NEXT (category Embedded operating systems)
    proprietary distributed operating system that succeeded the similarly named HarmonyOS, with the main difference that the "Next" operating system was developed...
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  • The Denali operating system is "an IA-32 virtual machine monitor, that allows for untrusted services to be run in isolated (protected) domains." Denali...
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    FLEX is a discontinued single-tasking operating system developed by Technical Systems Consultants (TSC) of West Lafayette, Indiana, for the Motorola 6800...
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  • systems. Many older operating systems support only their one "native" file system, which does not bear any name apart from the name of the operating system...
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  • computer) operating systems. The article "Usage share of operating systems" provides a broader, and more general, comparison of operating systems that includes...
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    were added to the operating system. It is one of the early distributed operating systems. Hewlett-Packard supported the operating system for a short time...
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  • (HMOS) (Chinese: 鸿蒙; pinyin: Hóngméng; trans. "Vast Mist") is a distributed operating system developed by Huawei for smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, smart...
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  • Middleware in the context of distributed applications is software that provides services beyond those provided by the operating system to enable the various...
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