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.


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Proprietary

Acorn

Amiga

Apollo

Apple

Atari

BAE Systems

Be Incorporated

Burroughs (later Unisys)

Convergent Technologies

Later acquired by Unisys.

Digital/Tandem Computers/Compaq/HP

Fujitsu

Green Hills Software

Hewlett-Packard

  • RTE Real-time Environment; ran on HP1000 series computers.
  • MPE Multi-programming Executive; ran on HP3000 mini-computers.
  • HP-UX HP-UX; runs on HP9000 and Itanium servers - from small to mainframe-class computers.

Intel

  • iRMX real-time operating system originally created to support the Intel 8080 and 8086 processor families in embedded applications

IBM

  • OS/360 and successors on IBM mainframes
    • OS/360 (First official OS targeted for the System/360 architecture, saw customer installations of the following variations:)
      • PCP (Primary Control Program, a kernel and a ground breaking automatic space allocating file system)
      • MFT (Multi-Programming Fixed Tasks, had 15 fixed size partitions defined at boot time)
      • MVT (Multi-Programming Variable Tasks, had up to 15 partitions defined dynamically)
    • OS/VS (The official port of OS/360 targeted for the System/370 virtual memory architecture. "OS/370" is not correct name. Customer installations in the following variations:)
      • SVS (Single Virtual Storage (both VS1 & VS2 began as SVS systems))
      • OS/VS1 (Operating System/Virtual Storage 1, Virtual-memory version of OS/MFT)
      • OS/VS2 (Operating System/Virtual Storage 2, Virtual-memory version of OS/MVT)
    • MVS/XA (MVS supported eXtended Architecture, 31bit addressing)
    • MVS/ESA (MVS supported Enterprise System Architecture)
    • OS/390 (Upgrade from MVS, with an additional Unix-like environment.)
    • z/OS (OS/390 supported z/Architecture, 64bit addressing.)
  • DOS/360 and successors on IBM 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). First commonly available OS for System/360 due to problems in the OS/360 Project. Multi-programming system with up to 3 partitions.)
      • 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 (upgrede of DOS/VS. Still had fixed size processing partitions, but up to 14 partitions.)
    • VSE/SP (renamed from DOS/VSE.)
    • VSE/ESA (DOS/VSE extended virtual memory support to 32 bit addresses (Extended System Architecture)).
    • z/VSE (Latest version of the four decades old DOS lineage. Now supports 64 bit addresses, Multiprocessing, Multiprogramming, SNA, TCP/IP, and some virtual machine features in support of Linux workloads. (All DOS ref. IBM website))
  • TPF Line on IBM mainframes (real-time operating system, for aircraft system)
  • Others on IBM mainframes
    • IBSYS (tape based operating system for IBM 7090 and IBM 7094)
    • CTSS (The Compatible Time-Sharing System developed at MIT's Computation Center)
    • RTOS/360 (Real Time Operating System, run on 5 NASA custom System/360/75s. A mash up by the Federal Systems Division of the MFT system management, PCP basic kernel and file system, with MVT task management and FSD custom real time kernel extensions and error management. The pinnacle of OS/360 development.)
    • MTS (Michigan Terminal System for IBM System/360)
    • TSS/360 (Time Sharing System for IBM System/360)
    • MUSIC/SP (developed by McGill University for IBM System/370)
    • IJMON (A Bootable serial I/O monitor for loading programs for IBM 1400 and IBM 1800.)
  • IBM 8100
    • DPCX (Distributed Processing Control eXecutive)
    • DPPX (Distributed Processing Programming Executive)
  • UNIX on IBM POWER
    • AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, a System V Unix version)
    • AOS (a BSD Unix version)
  • IBM PC and successors on x86 architecture
    • PC DOS / IBM DOS
      • PC DOS 1.x, 2.x, 3.x (developed jointly with Microsoft)
      • IBM DOS 4.x, 5.0 (developed jointly with Microsoft)
      • PC DOS 6.x, 7, 2000
    • OS/2
      • OS/2 1.x (developed jointly with Microsoft)
      • OS/2 2.x
      • OS/2 Warp V3
      • OS/2 Warp V4
      • eComStation (Warp 4.5/Workspace on Demand, rebundled by Serenity Systems International)

ICL (formerly ICT)

LynuxWorks (originally Lynx Real-time Systems)

Micrium

  • MicroC/OS-II (Small pre-emptive priority based multi-tasking kernel)

Microsoft

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.
  • SUSE Linux acquired by Novell which has adopted it as its core infrastructure. Novell now is a prime contributor to open-source projects based on Linux.

QANTEL

  • BEST - Business Executive System for Timesharing

RCA

  • TSOS, first OS supporting virtual addressing of the main storage and support for both timeshare and batch interface

Samsung

  • Croix(Touchwiz), found on Samsung devices such as the Tocco, Pixon, Armani, F490 and partly used on the Omnia

SCO / The SCO Group

  • 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
  • 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
  • SCO OpenServer 6, SVR5 (UnixWare 7) based kernel with SCO OpenServer 5 application and binary compatibility, system administration, and user environments[1][2]

Unicoi Systems

  • Fusion RTOS highly prolific, license free Real-time operating system.
  • DSPOS was the original project which would become the royalty free Fusion RTOS.

Wind River Systems

  • VxWorks Small footprint, scalable, high-performance RTOS

Non-Standard languages

Lisp-based operating systems

Other

Other proprietary Unix-like and POSIX-compliant

SDS (Scientific Data Systems)

  • CP Control Program. SDS later acquired by Xerox, then Honeywell.

TRON Project

UNIVAC (later Unisys)

WAVECOM

Nonproprietary Unix-like

  • TUNIS (University of Toronto)

Research Unix-like and other POSIX-compliant

Free Unix-like (aka open source)

Nonproprietary non-Unix-like

Research non-Unix-like

  • Amoeba (research OS by Andrew S. Tanenbaum)
  • Croquet
  • House Haskell User's Operating System and Environment, research OS written in Haskell and C.
  • ILIOS Research OS designed for routing
  • EROS microkernel, capability-based
  • L4 Second generation microkernel
  • Mach (from OS kernel research at Carnegie Mellon University; see NeXTSTEP)
  • MONADS capability-based OS designed to support the MONADS hardware projects
    • SPEEDOS (Secure Persistent Execution Environment for Distributed Object Systems) builds on MONADS ideas
  • Nemesis Cambridge University research OS - detailed quality of service abilities.
  • Singularity - A research operating system written mostly in managed code (C#) by Microsoft.
  • Spring (research OS from Sun Microsystems)
  • V from Stanford, early 1980s [3]

Open source non-Unix-like

  • FullPliant (programming language based)
  • FreeDOS (open source DOS variant)
  • FreeVMS (open source VMS variant)
  • Haiku (open source inspired by BeOS, under development)
  • ReactOS (free software Windows NT compatible OS, in early development since 2001)
  • osFree (open source OS/2 implementation)

Disk Operating System

Main article: 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, 2000)
    • MS-DOS (Microsoft's DOS variant for OEM, developed jointly with IBM, versions 1.x – 6. Microsoft's now abandoned DOS variant)
  • DR-DOS (Digital Research's [later Novell, Caldera, ...] DOS variant)
    • Concurrent DOS (Digital Research's first multiuser DOS variant)
    • Multiuser DOS (Digital Research's [later CCI's. Real's/...] multiuser DOS variant)
  • FreeDOS (open source DOS variant)
  • ProDOS (operating system for the Apple II series computers)
  • PTS-DOS (DOS variant by Russian company Phystechsoft)
  • RDOS (Data General Corp)
    • TurboDOS (Software 2000, Inc.)
  • Multi-tasking user interfaces and environments for DOS

Network

Web operating systems

Main article: Web operating system

Generic/commodity, non-Unix, and other

For Elektronika BK Soviet personal computer

  • ANDOS
  • AO-DOS
  • BASIS
  • CSI-DOS
  • DOSB10
  • DX-DOS
  • FA-DOS
  • HC-DOS
  • KMON (operating system)|KMON
  • MicroDOS
  • MK-DOS
  • NORD
  • NORTON-BK
  • RAMON
  • PascalDOS
  • RT-11
    • ROM embedded
    • RT-11SJ
    • OS BK-11 (RT-11 version)
  • Turbo-DOS
  • BKUNIX
  • OS/A WASP

Hobby

Embedded

Personal digital assistants (PDAs)

Music players

Smartphones

Router

Microcontroller, Real-time

Capability-based

  • KeyKOS nanokernel
  • MONADS designed to support the MONADS hardware projects.
    • SPEEDOS builds on MONADS ideas
  • V from Stanford, early 1980s [3]

LEGO Mindstorms

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