• Commercial Operating System (COS) is a discontinued family of operating systems from Digital Equipment Corporation. They supported the use of DIBOL, a...
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  • operating system of macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, audioOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It previously existed as an independent open-source operating...
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    Inferno is a distributed operating system started at Bell Labs and now developed and maintained by Vita Nuova Holdings as free software under the MIT License...
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  • Genera is a commercial operating system and integrated development environment for Lisp machines created by Symbolics. It is essentially a fork of an...
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    Zephyr (/ˈzɛf ər/) is a small real-time operating system (RTOS) for connected, resource-constrained and embedded devices (with an emphasis on microcontrollers)...
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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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  • real-time operating systems (RTOSes) produced and marketed by Green Hills Software. INTEGRITY is POSIX-certified and intended for use in embedded systems of...
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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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  • computer operating systems from 1951 to the current day. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the History of operating systems. 1951...
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    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...
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  • of the Android mobile operating system began with the public release of its first beta on November 5, 2007. The first commercial version, Android 1.0,...
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    An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs...
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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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  • Rhapsody into Darwin, an open source operating system that is the foundation for Apple's current commercial operating systems. Since Rhapsody could run on both...
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    program at the core of a computer's operating system that always has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel is also responsible for...
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    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...
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    Technologies Operating System, also known variously as CTOS, BTOS and STARSYS, is a discontinued modular, message-passing, multiprocess-based operating system. CTOS...
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    A Linux distribution, often abbreviated as distro, is an operating system that includes the Linux kernel for its kernel functionality. Although the name...
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  • operating systems § Market share by category) Windows PE: A lightweight version of its Windows sibling, meant to operate as a live operating system,...
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  • The usage share of an operating system is the percentage of computers running that operating system (OS). These statistics are estimates as wide scale...
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    Singularity is an experimental operating system developed by Microsoft Research between July 9, 2003, and February 7, 2015. It was designed as a high dependability...
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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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  • 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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  • This is a list of real-time operating systems (RTOSs). This is an operating system in which the time taken to process an input stimulus is less than the...
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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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    Unix (redirect from UNIX operating system)
    portable operating system: almost the entire operating system is written in the C programming language (in 1973), which allows Unix to operate on numerous...
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  • Unix-like, multi-user, real-time operating system released by Whitesmiths, of Westford, Massachusetts. The product was commercially available from 1979 through...
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  • managed code operating system (OS) being jointly developed by Microsoft and Microsoft Research. It had been reported to be a possible commercial implementation...
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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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  • VME (Virtual Machine Environment) is a mainframe operating system developed by the UK company International Computers Limited (ICL, now part of the Fujitsu...
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