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    iPadOS are mobile operating systems, while Windows, macOS, and Linux are desktop operating systems. Linux distributions are dominant in the server and supercomputing...
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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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  • light laptops, and the hybridization of the 2-in-1 PCs. Mobile operating systems combine features of a desktop computer operating system with other features...
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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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    Haiku, originally OpenBeOS, is a free and open-source operating system for personal computers. It is a community-driven continuation of BeOS and aims to...
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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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  • A disk operating system (DOS) is a computer operating system that provides storage limited to disk hardware (such as a floppy, hard drive and optical)...
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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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  • of Microsoft written and published operating systems. For the codenames that Microsoft gave their operating systems, see Microsoft codenames. For another...
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    computer 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...
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  • Wade–Giles: Ch'i²-lin²) is an operating system developed by academics at the National University of Defense Technology in the People's Republic of China...
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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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  • 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...
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  • graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sectors of the computing...
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  • Darwin is the core Unix-like operating system of macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, audioOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It previously existed as an independent...
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    Amnesia. The operating system was born when Amnesia was merged with Incognito. The Tor Project provided financial support for its development in the beginnings...
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  • The Pick Operating System, also known as the Pick System or simply Pick, is a demand-paged, multi-user, virtual memory, time-sharing computer operating...
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    An embedded operating system (EOS) is an operating system designed specifically for embedded computer systems. These systems aim to enhance functionality...
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    An operating system shell is a computer program that provides relatively broad and direct access to the system on which it runs. The term shell refers...
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  • Android-based operating system developed by Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Infinix Mobile, a subsidiary of Transsion Holdings. The operating system is developed...
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  • A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system (OS) for real-time computing applications that processes data and events that have critically...
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    developed operating system for the x86-64 architecture based on the Linux kernel and a choice of Budgie, GNOME, KDE Plasma or Xfce as the desktop environment...
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  • events in the history of computer operating systems from 1951 to the current day. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the History of...
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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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    VSEn (Virtual Storage Extended) is an operating system for IBM mainframe computers, the latest one in the DOS/360 lineage, which originated in 1965. It...
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  • The THE multiprogramming system or THE OS was a computer operating system designed by a team led by Edsger W. Dijkstra, described in monographs in 1965-66...
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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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    virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible systems, including the Hercules emulator...
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    Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS, /ˈdʒiːkoʊs/; originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor) is a family of operating systems oriented...
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  • is an operating system that was developed by Apple Computer after its purchase of NeXT in the late 1990s. It is the fifth major release of the Mach-based...
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