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Operating Systems

The first operating systems in the 1950s were to minimise idle time between programs, and allowed the running of batch programs. Interactivity and time-sharing became popular in the early 1960s.


BSD
Linux
MacOS
MS-DOS
Multics
OS/2
OS/2 Warp
OS 360
Star
386BSD
Unix
Windows
Windows 2
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows ME
Windows XP
X Windows


Acorn
AIX
Amoeba
Amstrad
Apple II
AtheOS
BeOS
BIOS
BSD-OS
Choices
CPM
Darwin
DEC
DOS
eCos
EPOC
EROS
FreeBSD
GEM
GEOS
GNU Hurd
HP-UX
IBM
Inferno
IRIX
Java
L4
Mach
Mac PowerPC
MINIX
ML
MPE
MSX
Nemesis
NetBSD
NetWare
NeXT
Oberon
OpenBSD
OpenVMS
Oric
OS-400
OS-9
Palm OS
Plan 9
POSIX
PPC
PURE
QNX
REAL-32
Realtime
RISC OS
RTEMS
RxDOS
SCO
SCO Xenix
Self-R
SGI
Slackware
Solaris
Squeak
SunOS
THEOS
ThreadX
TI-99 4A
TinyOS
TRON
Tru64
TUNES
TuringOS
2K
Vax
VMS
VSE
VSTa
V2 OS
VxWorks
Windows CE
x86
z-OS
z-VM


Multics
Unix
UNIX System III
UNIX System IV
UNIX System V
BSD
OS 360
Xerox 8010 'Star'
MacOS
MS-DOS
GNU
Windows
Windows 2
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11
Minix
386 BSD
Linux
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows ME
Windows XP
Mac OS X
OS/2
OS/2 Warp
X Windows
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Uncategorised:

1980, UNIX/370, IBM System/370
1980, PC/IX, IBM PC/XT
1980, CPIX and S/1 IX,IBM S/1
1982, XENIX, IBM PC/AT, IBM CS9000
1980, VM/IX, IBM System/370
1984, IX/370, IBM 30xx
1986, AIX, IBM RT PC
1986, BSD4.2, IBM RT PC
1987, AIX, IBM PS/2 Model 80
1988 IBM announces AIX family definition

circa 1996 Solaris 2.5.1, had increased stability, performance and backward compatibility.

circa 1980 Coherent Unix. Mark Williams. commercial Unix work-alike

SysV

Irix

Multics

last updated: 2004-02-13t12:27z