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Year
Description Platform Company Link
_unknown
1950s
Early machine capable of distributing computing.
Lincoln TX-2
Lincoln Lab, USA
_unknown
1953
Early machine capable of distributing computing.
DYSEAC
National Bureau of Standards, USA
Open Shop
1954
Early operating system.
IBM 701
IBM, USA
_unknown
1955c
Very early operating system developed by General Motors for the IBM 701. Unnamed.
IBM 701
General Motors, USA
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MIT's Tape Director operating system
1955
Operating system developed for its Whirlwind computer. Also used for the UNIVAC 1103. The first example of a Job Control Language (JCL) driven operating system.
WHIRLWIND I, UNIVAC 1103
MIT, USA
-
General Motors Operating System (GM OS)
1955
The General Motors Research Laboratories implemented an operating system for the IBM 701. Generally considered the first operating system.
IBM 701
General Motors, USA
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GM-NAA I/O
1956
Based on General Motors Operating System.
IBM 704
General Motors, USA
Input Output System
1956c
Very early operating system developed by General Motors and North American Aviation for the IBM-704.
IBM 704
General Motors and North American Aviation, USA
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BESYS
1957
Early computing environment originally implemented as a batch processing operating system at Bell Labs for the IBM 704 computer.
IBM 704, later IBM 7090 and IBM 7094
IBM, USA
UMES
1958
University of Michigan Executive System. Batch operating system.
IBM 704, 709, and 7090
IBM, USA
FMS
1958c
FORTRAN Monitor system.
IBM 709
North American Aviation, USA
SAGE
1950s
Semi-Automatic Ground Environment system. Control Program for IBM AN/FSQ7 to monitor weapons systems. First real-time control system.
IBM AN/FSQ7
IBM, USA
-
SOS (1)
1959
SHARE Operating System. Improvement on the General Motors GM-NAA I/O operating system, the first operating system.
IBM 704, 709
SHARE user group, USA
SABRE
1960s
Semi-Automatic Business Related Environment. The first major transaction processing system, developed by IBM and American Airlines for the IBM 7090.
IBM 7090
IBM, USA
-
DOS (1)
1960s
Disk Operating System for RCA Spectra 70 series.
RCA Spectra 70 series
USA
-
_unknown
1960s
Unix-like OS for IBM System/360 and sucessors.
IBM System/360, System/370, and successors
IBM, USA
_unknown
1960s
Operating system for IBM mainframes.
IBM 1400, 1800, 701, 704, 709, 7090, 7094
IBM, USA
-
BPS/360
1960s
Basic Programming Support. Business-oriented OS for the IBM/360.
IBM System/360
IBM, USA
BTM
1960s
Batch Time-Sharing Monitor for XDS Sigma 5/7.
Xerox XDS Sigma 5/7
USA
-
CAL
1960s
Research OS for the CDC 6400.
CDC 6400
USA
-
MOS (1)
1960s
Master OS for Varian minicomputers. Tape or disk based batch system.
Varian minicomputers
USA
-
MOS ES
1960s
Mobile Operating System. Soviet RIAD mainframes operating system.
ES EVM (ES-1021), SM EVM
Russia
HES
1964<
Honeywell Executive System. Operating System for the Honeywell 800.
Honeywell 800
Honeywell, USA
-
HITAC 8400 OS
1960s
Virtual machine system for the Hitac 8400 (RCA Spectra 70/45).
Hitachi HITAC 8400 (RCA Spectra 70/45)
Hitachi, Japan
-
AMS (1)
1960s
Advanced Monitor System. A single user interactive disk or tape OS for the PDP-9 & PDP-15.
DEC PDP-9 & PDP-15
DEC, USA
-
IBM 1410/1710
1964<
Operating system for the IBM 1410/1710.
IBM 1410, 1710
IBM, USA
-
OS 10 ES
1960s
Operating system for ES EVM.
ES-1010
Russia
IJMON
1960s
Bootable serial I/O monitor for loading programs.
IBM 1400 and IBM 1800
IBM, USA
-
CPS (1)
1960s
Early OS for DEC minicomputers.
DEC minicomputers
USA
-
MACE
1960s
Mansfield and Cahlander Executive. SCOPE competing operating system. Original name for CDC KRONOS OS.
-
Control Data, USA
IOCS
1960c
Input Output Control System. An early I/O Executive for the IBM 7090.
IBM 7090
IBM, USA
Manager
1960s
First Soviet operating system.
Minsk-23
Russia
-
Executive II
1960s
Real-time disk operating system for the IBM 1710.
IBM 1710
USA
-
MultiJob
1960s
J variant that allowed interactive access.
ICL System 4 series mainframes
International Computers Limited, UK
-
DAPS
1960s
Direct Access Programming System.
General Electric GE-400
Bull-General Electric, USA
B1
1960s
Operating System for NCR Century series computers.
NCR Century
NCR, USA
-
B2
1960s
Operating System for NCR Century series computers.
NCR Century
NCR, USA
-
B3
1960s
Operating System for NCR Century series computers.
NCR Century
NCR, USA
-
B4
1960s
Operating System for NCR Century series computers.
NCR Century
NCR, USA
-
Basic Executive System
1960s
Memory-based real-time executive for the IBM 1710.
IBM 1710
IBM, USA
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J
1960s
System 4 operating system.
ICL System 4 series mainframes
ICL, UK
RTMOS
1960s
Real-Time Multiprogramming Operating System. 24-bit process control operating system that supported both real-time computing and multiprogramming.
General Electric computers
General Electric, USA
JOSS
1960s
JOHNNIAC Open Shop System. An early on-line computing system for the JOHNNIAC computer.
JOHNNIAC
Rand, USA
-
DMS (1) (1 versions)
1960s
Disk Monitor System. Single-task batch-oriented system.
IBM 1130
IBM, USA
PCP
1960s
Primary Control Program, very early version of OS/360 that didn't support multiprogramming.
IBM System/360
IBM, USA
-
PECOS
1960s
CDC operating system, descendent of Chippewa.
-
Control Data, USA
Burroughs MCP
1961
Proprietary operating system of the Burroughs small, medium and large systems, including the Unisys Clearpath/MCP systems.
Burroughs mainframes
Burroughs, Unisys, USA
Unisys MCP
1961
Master Control Program. Proprietary operating system of the Burroughs small, medium and large systems, including the Unisys Clearpath/MCP systems.
Burroughs mainframes
Unisys, USA
CTSS (1)
1961
Compatible Time-Sharing System. Developed at MIT's Computation Center for use on a modified IBM 7094.
IBM 7094
MIT, USA
Executive Monitor
1961
-
Honeywell H800
Honeywell, USA
-
BRIDGE
1962
Operating system for GE computers.
GE-215/225/235
General Electric, USA
-
GCOS (7 versions)
1962
General Comprehensive Operating System. Originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor.
36-bit GE/Honeywell mainframe computers
General Electric, USA
CO-OP
1962
Operating system for the CDC 1604 computer.
CDC-1604
Control Data, USA
-
IBSYS
1962
Tape based operating system for IBM 7090 and IBM 7094.
IBM 7090/7094
IBM, USA
AOSP
1962
-
Burroughs D825
Burroughs, USA
-
EXEC (5 versions)
1962
UNIVAC's original operating system developed for the UNIVAC 1107.
UNIVAC 1107
UNIVAC, Unisys, USA
EXECUTIVE (1)
1962
Operating system for the Bendix G-20 computer.
Bendix G-20
Bendix, USA
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Atlas Supervisor
1962
Supervisor Program for the first computer designed to use an operating system. Introduced system calls and virtual storage. Multiprogramming OS.
ATLAS
Manchester University, UK
-
MCP (1)
1962
Master Control Program.
Burroughs B5000
Burroughs, USA
-
SYS
1962
Operating system for the Philco-2000 computer.
Philco 2000
Philco, USA
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BKS
1962
Batch-oriented operating system for the Philco-2000 computer.
Philco 2000
Philco, USA
-
ADMIRAL
1963
ADMIRAL Master Monitor. Operating system for the Honeywell 800/1800.
Honeywell 800/1800
Honeywell, USA
-
CSIRONET
1963
Operating system for the CSIRONET ?
-
CSIRO, Australia
-
MCP (2)
1963
Burroughs Master Control Program. Proprietary operating system of the Burroughs small, medium and large systems, including the Unisys Clearpath/MCP systems.
Burroughs mainframes (B5000)
Burroughs, USA
TITAN Supervisor
1963
Early time-sharing system.
Atlas 2
Queen's University of Belfast, UK
-
MOD (7 versions)
1964
Series of operating systems for the NEAC-series 2200, which was developed in technical collaboration with Honeywell.
NEC NEAC-series 2200
NEC, Honeywell, Japan
SCOPE (7 versions)
1964
Supervisory Control Of Program Execution or Simultaneous Control Of Program Execution. File-oriented system using mass storage, random access devices. Productized version of Chippewa.
CDC 3000/6000/7600 series
Control Data, USA
GECOS (3 versions)
1964
General Electric Comprehensive Operating System.
General Electric mainframes
General Electric, USA
SCP (1)
1964
Supervisory Control Program.
DEC PDP-6
GEC Computers, USA
-
TSM
1964<
Time Sharing Monitor. Early timesharing OS for the 7090.
IBM 7090
IBM, USA
-
MONARCH
1964
Operating system for the SDS 9000 computer.
SDS 9000
Scientific Data Systems, USA
-
TSS (1)
1964<
Early timesharing system for the AN/FSQ-32.
AN/FSQ-32
USA
-
DTSS
1964
Dartmouth Time-Sharing System. Timesharing with the BASIC language for liberal arts students, on a novel 2-computer system (GE-235 + Datanet 30).
GE computers
Dartmouth College, USA
-
COS (1)
1964
Comprehensive Operating Supervisor.
GE 625/635
General Electric, USA
-
Realcom system
1964
Operating system for the RCA 3301 computer.
RCA 3301
RCA, USA
-
B5000 Master Control Program
1964
Multiprogramming operating system.
Burrough B5000
Burroughs, USA
Berkeley Timesharing System
1964
Operating system for Scientific Data Systems' SDS 940.
SDS 940
Scientific Data Systems, USA
-
TOPS-10 (4 versions)
1964
Timesharing/Total Operating System-10. Discontinued operating system from DEC for the PDP-10 (or DECsystem-10) computer family.
DEC PDP-10, PDP-6
DEC, USA
TOS (1)
1965>
Tape OS.
Hitachi HITAC 8000
Hitachi, Japan
-
TOS (3)
1965c
Tape Operating System. Early operating system for the RCA Spectra 70.
RCA Spectra 70
USA
-
TOS/360
1965
IBM's Tape Operating System. Similar to BOS above and more fleeting, able to boot and run from 2x00 series tape drives.
IBM System/360
IBM, USA
Pick
1965
Often licensed and renamed. Business-oriented OS featuring an integral relational database.
-
Prime Computer, Pick Systems, USA
TSOS
1965
Time Sharing Operating System. First OS supporting virtual addressing of the main storage and support for both timeshare and batch interface. Renamed VMOS.
RCA mainframes
RCA, USA
SIGMA 7 OS
1965c
Operating system for the SDS Sigma 7 real-time data processing computer.
SDS Sigma 7
USA
-
Chippewa
1965c
Operating system for the CDC 6600 supercomputer. Original name of SCOPE.
CDC 6600
Control Data, USA
SIPROS 66
1965
Simultaneous Processing Operating System.
CDC 6600
Control Data, USA
RCA OSs POS
1965>
Primary OS.
Hitachi HITAC 8000
Hitachi, Japan
-
IBM 1130
1965
Operating system for the IBM 1130.
IBM 1130
IBM, USA
COS/MT
1965
Operating system for TOSBAC-5100/10. Was capable of continuously executing batch jobs using a magnetic tape.
Toshiba TOSBAC-5100/10
Toshiba, Japan
MULTICS (31 versions)
1965
Multiplexed Information and Computing Service. Operating system (written in PL/I) whose design began in the late 60's, co-written by MIT, AT&T Bell Labs and GE, that was meant to become the be-all-end-all of OS technology by having just every (un)imaginable feature, and that was supplanted by Unix, despite the fact that Multics was much better(?) designed, because Unix' simple and stubborn design was much more adapted to the very resource-poor architectures of the time. Originally developped for the GE-645 and later the Honeywell 6180.
GE-645, Honeywell/Bull computers
MIT, GE, Bell Labs, USA
Input Output Selector
1965c
An IO Control System for the DDP-116 minicomputer. One of the earliest OSs for minis.
Computer Control Company DDP-116
Computer Control Company, USA
-
MCP (2) (3 versions)
1965
Master Control Program. Was the control program for Fujitsu's medium general-purpose computers FACOM 230-20 and FACOM 230-30.
Fujitsu FACOM 230
Fujitsu, Japan
MVT (2 versions)
1965c
Multi-Programming Variable Tasks. Had up to 15 application regions defined dynamically, plus additional regions for system tasks
IBM System/360
IBM, USA
TDOS
1965>
Tape and Disk Operating System.
Hitachi HITAC 8000, RCA Spectra 70
-
-
BOS/360
1965
Basic Operating System. Early interim version of DOS/360, briefly available at a few Alpha & Beta System/360 sites
IBM System/360
IBM, USA
PDP-6 Monitor
1965c
Monitor System for the PDP-6.
DEC PDP-6
USA
-
DOS/360 (1 versions)
1966
Operating system for IBM Mainframes.
IBM System/360, System/370, and successors
IBM, USA
Model 10PT
1966
Operating system for the MELCOM 3100 series of computers. This operating system used magnetic tapes as external storage and were developed by systematically organizing and enhancing the system programs built up with MELCOM-1530.
Mitsusbishi MELCOM-3100 series
Mitsubishi, Japan
Model 10T
1966
Operating system for the MELCOM 3100 series of computers. This operating system used magnetic tapes as external storage and were developed by systematically organizing and enhancing the system programs built up with MELCOM-1530.
Mitsusbishi MELCOM-3100 series
Mitsubishi, Japan
Model 30T
1966
Operating system for the MELCOM 3100 series of computers. This operating system used magnetic tapes as external storage and were developed by systematically organizing and enhancing the system programs built up with MELCOM-1530.
Mitsusbishi MELCOM-3100 series
Mitsubishi, Japan
DOS-2314
1966c
Disk operating systems for 2314 Disk Access Strorage.
IBM mainframes
IBM, USA
-
MONITOR II
1966
First control program for FACOM 230-50, developed through improving FONTAC MONITOR. for batch processing based on a magnetic tape.
Fujitsu FACOM 230-50
Fujitsu, Japan
GEORGE (4 versions)
1966
GEneral ORGanisational Environment. Used by ICL 1900 series mainframes.
ICL 1900 series mainframes
ICL, UK
HP-1000/RTE
1966
Real-time computer system first produced by Hewlett Packard in 1966 and discontinued in 2000.
HP-1000
Hewlett-Packard, USA
MS/8
1966
Or The RL Monitor System. Discontinued operating system developed for the PDP-8. It was submitted to DECUS in 1970.
DEC PDP-8
Richard F. Lary, USA
-
EGDON (1 versions)
1966
Serial batch and multiprogramming OS for the English Electric KDF9, designed to support program development.
English Electric KDF9
English Electric, UK
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OS/360
1966
First official OS targeted for the System/360 architecture.
IBM System/360 and successors
IBM, USA
MARK-I
1966
Disk operating system developed for models 20 and 40 of Mitsubishi Electric's MELCOM-3100.
Mitsubishi MELCOM 3100
Mitsubishi, Japan
-
OS/PCP
1966
Primary Control Program. Early batch-serial version of IBM OS/360.
IBM System/360
IBM, USA
-
MFT (1 versions)
1966
Original Multi-programming with a Fixed number of Tasks, replaced by MFT II. See OS/MFT.
IBM mainframes
IBM, USA
4K Disk Monitor System
1967
Discontinued operating system released by DEC for their PDP-8 line of mini-computers.
DEC PDP-8
DEC, USA
TSS/360
1967
IBM's Time-sharing System for the S/360-67. Never officially released, canceled in 1969 and again in 1971.
IBM System/360-67
IBM, USA
TSX
1967c
Time Sharing eXecutive.
IBM 1800
IBM, USA
MOS (2)
1967c
Minimum Operating System. Card-based batch monitor for Univac 9200, 9300.
UNIVAC 9200, 9300
USA
CMS
1967
Cambridge Monitor System or Conversational Monitor System. Single User Interactive OS developed in conjunction with the Virtual Machine Control Program CP-40 at IBM Cambridge Laboratories. Later adapted for CP-67 and VM/370.
-
IBM, USA
MPX
1967c
Multi Programming eXecutive. First IBM system to provide multiple fixed partitions into which programs could be scheduled on the basis of external events, time-of-day clock, time interval, operator command and the batch job control language.
IBM 1800
IBM, USA
COS/DS
1967
Operating system for TOSBAC-5100/20. Was capable of continuously executing batch jobs using a magnetic tape.
Toshiba TOSBAC-5100/20
Toshiba, Japan
Unisys OS 2200 operating system
1967
Operating system for the Unisys ClearPath Dorado family of mainframe systems.
Unisys ClearPath Dorado
Unisys, USA
ORVYL
1967
Timesharing monitor.
IBM System/360
Stanford University, USA
WYLBUR
1967
Operating system for the IBM System/360.
IBM System/360
Stanford University, USA
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MTS (1)
1967
Michigan Terminal System, developed by a group of universities in the US, Canada, and the UK for the IBM System/360 Model 67, System/370 series, and compatible mainframes.
IBM System/360 Model 67, System/370 series
IBM, USA
CP-40/CMS
1967
Predecessor to CP-67 on modified IBM System/360 Model 40.
IBM System/360 Model 40
IBM, USA
CP-67/CMS
1967
Also known as CP/CMS. Virtual machine control program for the IBM 360/67. Successor to CP-40. See also CMS.
IBM System/360 Model 67
IBM, USA
OS/360 MVT
1967
Multiprogramming with a Variable number of Tasks. Level of OS/360.
IBM System/360
IBM, USA
MARK-II
1967c
Disk operating system developed for model 40 of Mitsubishi Electric's MELCOM-3100.
Mitsubishi MELCOM 3100
Mitsubishi, Japan
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Multipop
1967
Operating system based on the concurrently developed implemenation of POP-2; Multipop employed no conventional hardware protection mechanisms: its security was guaranteed by accessing system resources via closures of device access functions, and on built in restrictions on code generation embodied in the compiler (an ancient example of a no-kernel system).
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Robin Popplestone, USA
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OS/MFT
1967
Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks. Simple version of OS/MVT suitable for processors with limited memory.
-
IBM, USA
-
OS/MVT
1967
Multiprogramming with a Variable Number of Tasks. Popular OS for IBM 360/370.
IBM System/360, System/370
IBM, USA
-
Michigan Terminal System (MTS)
1967
Time-sharing system for the IBM S/360-67 and successors.
IBM System/360 Model 67, System/370 series, and compatibles
University of Michigan, USA
ITS
1967
Incompatible Timesharing System. Famous OS developed by hackers at MIT's AI lab from 1967 to the early 1980's for the DEC PDP-6 and PDP-10 family.
DEC PDP-6 and PDP-10
MIT, USA
-
Titan File System
1967
Timesharing operating system for the Titan.
-
Cambridge University, UK
-
WAITS
1967
SAIL, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Time-sharing system for DEC PDP-6 and PDP-10, later TOPS-10.
DEC PDP-6 and PDP-10
DEC, USA
BOSS-2
1968c
Operating system for the RC-4000 Computer.
Regnecentralen RC-4000
Regnecentralen, Denmark
-
TOSBAC-1100E OS
1968
First-Generation Operating Systems for the TOSBAC-1100E office computer.
Toshiba TOSBAC-1100E
Toshiba, Japan
MJCS
1968
Multi-Job Control System. Enabled the user to perform real-time inquiry operations from up to 16 terminals (electric typewriters) directly connected to the main unit.
Toshiba TOSBAC-5100
Toshiba, Japan
Pitt Time Sharing System
1968c
An early Timesharing system developed for the IBM S/360.
IBM System/360
University of Pittsburgh, USA
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MOD4
1968c
Operating system for the Honeywell Series 200.
Honeywell Series 200
USA
-
MONITOR III
1968
Control program for batch processing based on a magnetic drum unit. Job stacking function was added to achieve increased batch processing efficiency.
Fujitsu FACOM
Fujitsu, Japan
-
MONITOR V
1968
Oerating system for Fujitsu’s large general-purpose computer FACOM 230-60.
Fujitsu FACOM 230-60
Fujitsu, Japan
POS (1)
1968c
Primary OS for RCA Spectra 70 And Hitachi HITAC computers.
RCA Spectra 70, Hitachi HITAC 8000
RCA, USA
-
TSS-8
1968
Discontinued time-sharing operating system. DEC also referred to it as Timeshared-8 and EduSystem 50.
DEC PDP-8
DEC, USA
SEL 810A/810B OS
1968c
Batch Serial Operating System for the SEL 810A/810B minicomputer.
SEL 810A/810B
USA
-
ACP
1968
Airline Control Program. In contrast to previous airline transaction processing systems, the most notable aspect of ACP is that it was designed to run on most models of the IBM System/360 mainframe computer family.
IBM System/360
IBM, USA
SINTRAN (2 versions)
1968
Range of operating systems for Norsk Data's line of minicomputers.
Norsk Data computers
Norwegian Institute of Technology, Norsk Data, Norway
CMAS
1968c
Cambridge Multiple Access System.
-
University of Cambridge, UK
-
MOS (3)
1968c
Multiprogramming OS for NCR Century 300 computer.
NCR Century 300
USA
-
COOL
1968
Customer-Oriented Optimum Language. Decimal machine language and operating system for the Melcom 81 computers.
Mitusbishi MELCOM 81
Mitsubishi, Japan
IBM 360/30 OS
1968c
Virtual machine for the IBM 360/30.
IBM System/360-30
USA
-
COS/30
1968
Operating system for TOSBAC-5100/30.
Toshiba TOSBAC-5100/30
Toshiba, Japan
CP/CMS
1968
Control Program/Cambridge Monitor System.
IBM System/360, System/370, and successors
IBM, USA
SUE
1968c
Experimental OS for the IBM S/360.
IBM System/360
USA
-
ESOPE (5 versions)
1968
Operating system prototype.
CII 10070
IRIA, France
OS/200
1968c
Operating system for Honeywell Series 200 family.
Honeywell Series 200 family
USA
-
OS/4
1968c
Operating Systems for UNIVAC 9700.
UNIVAC 9700
USA
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MARK-III
1968
Disk operating system developed for models 20 and 40 of Mitsubishi Electric's MELCOM-3100.
Mitsubishi MELCOM 3100
Mitsubishi, Japan
OS/7
1968c
Operating Systems for UNIVAC 9700.
UNIVAC 9700
USA
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D-68
1968
Dispatcher-68. First operating system for the BESM-6 computer.
BESM-6
ITMiVT RAS, Russia
IDA, IDASYS
1968c
Operating system for the CDC 6600 based on the concept of a supervisory computer.
CDC 6600
Institute for Defense Analyses, USA
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MASTER
1968c
Operatingsystem for Control Data 3300/3500.
Control Data 3300/3500
USA
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OS/MFT-II
1968c
-
-
IBM, USA
-
OS-3 (2)
1968c
Oregon State Open Shop OS. A timesharing system for the CDC 3300.
CDC 3300
USA
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T.H.E.
1968c
Research OS developed by Edsgar Dijkstra. Named for the Technische Hoogeschool at Eindhoven, where it was developed. Early exploration of program verification techniques. Early layered system design. First implementation of semaphores.
-
Technische Hoogeschoo, Netherlands
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VMOS
1968c
Virtual Memory Operating System. Timesharing OS for the RCA Spectra 70.
RCA Spectra 70
RCA, USA
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THE
1968
Multiprogramming system by Dijkstra. Introduced the first form of software-based memory segmentation, freeing programmers from being forced to use actual physical locations.
Electrologica X8
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
-
Foreground/Background/8
1968c
Experimental Foreground/Background OS for the PDP-8.
DEC PDP-8
USA
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MINIMOP
1968c
Multi-Access OS.
-
USA
-
VS/9
1968c
Successor to RCA TSOS. Discontinued computer operating system available for the UNIVAC Series 90 mainframes during the late 1960s through 1980s.
UNIVAC Series 90 mainframes
Sperry UNIVAC, USA
PDP-10/50 Swapping Monitor
1968c
An early OS for the PDP-10.
DEC PDP-10
USA
-
RBM
1969
Real-Time Batch Monitor. Capable of simultaneously performing multiple real-time processing tasks.
Mitsubishi MELCOM-7000, Xerox Data Systems minicomputers
Xerox, Mitsubishi, Japan
RC 4000 Multiprogramming System (RC)
1969
Discontinued operating system developed for the RC 4000 minicomputer .
Regnecentralen RC 4000
Regnecentralen, Denmark
EDOS (1)
1969
Operating system for HITAC 8000 computers. Enhanced functionality based on DOS.
Hitachi HITAC 8000
Hitachi, Japan
Unics
1969
Uniplexed Information and Computing Service. Later Unix. AT&T, initially on DEC computers.
-
AT&T, USA
ELDON 2
1969c
Operating System for the British KDF9.
English Electric KDF9
Leeds University, USA
-
IBM System/3
1969
IBM midrange computer OS.
IBM System/3
IBM, USA
ROS (1)
1969
Operating system for small-to-medium scale real-time processing.
Fujitsu FACOM 230 and 235
Fujitsu, Japan
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BCM
1969<
Basic Control Monitor for Xerox/SDS computers.
Xerox 530, SDS Sigma
Scientific Data Systems, USA
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DIPS-0 BASIC
1969
Was the first prototype system of the DIPS series.
Hitachi HITAC 8400
NTT, Japan
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TENEX
1969
Ancestor of TOPS-20 from BBN, for the PDP-10.
DEC PDP-10
DEC, USA
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RTOS/360
1969c
IBM's Real Time Operating System, ran on 5 NASA custom System/360-75s.
NASA custom IBM System/360-75s
IBM, USA
BOS (1)
1969
For medium-scale batch processing. Capable of simultaneously executing one batch process and up to two sub processes.
Fujitsu FACOM 230 and 235
Fujitsu, Japan
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KOS (1)
1969<
Kent On-Line System.
ICL 4100
Kent University, UK
-
DOS (2) (8 versions)
1970s
Family of disk operating systems.
-
-
MIRAGE
1970s
Multitasking Real-time OS for 68000 series.
68000
USA
-
Perpos
1970s
Perpetual Processing OS for Computer Consoles Power 55/5. 68000-based multiple CPUs. UNIX-based system featuring high reliability.
Computer Consoles Power 55/5
USA
-
_unknown
1970
Monitor and Operating system for the PDP-8/S computer system.
DEC PDP-8/S
United States Naval Postgraduate School, USA
BPM
1970
Batch Processing Monitor. Capable of simultaneously performing remote batch processing submitted from a remote location and multiple real-time processing tasks.
Mitsubishi MELCOM-7000
Mitsubishi, Japan
-
Fuzzball
1970s
Operating system and applications library designed for the PDP-11 family of computers. It was intended as a development platform and research pipewrench for the DARPA/NSF Internet.
DEC PDP-11
David Mills, USA
LABS/7
1970s
Distributed real-time OS for laboratory control.
-
USA
-
DOS (4)
1970s
DOS Intel 808x/80x86-based, Disk Operating Systems for desktop systems. Capable of up to 32 users per node. Supported a sophisticated network of nodes that were often purpose-built. The name DOS was used in these products login screens before it was popularized by IBM, Microsoft and others.
i808x/i80x86
DataPoint, USA
-
DOS (5)
1970s
Disk Operating System. For real-time systems, providing a filesystem and swapping facilities.
GEC 4000 series
GEC Computers, UK
TRIO
1970s
Operating system for three users, written in Concurrent Pascal, based on SOLO.
DEC PDP-11/55
Per Brinch Hansen, USA
-
DOS ES (2 versions)
1970s
Operating system for RIAD ES computers.
RIAD ES computers
Russia
DOS-11 (1 versions)
1970
See DEC BATCH-11/DOS-11.
DEC PDP-11
IBM, USA
-
DOS-99
1970s
Single User operating system for the GRI-99 Minicomputer.
GRI-99
GRI, USA
-
SCP-2
1970s
Secure Operating System (DOD A1/B3) Multilevel security.
GEC 4000 series
DEC, USA
ONIX
1970s
Adaptation of UNIX, Version 7.
-
Onyx, USA
-
PORTX
1970s
ROM-Based Real-time executive.
-
Destek Group, USA
-
PTOS
1970c
Paper Tape OS for the Cincinnati Milacron CIP/2200.
Cincinnati Milacron CIP/2200
USA
-
Chios
1970s
Operaing system for the UNIVAC 1108 in a service bureau environment.
UNIVAC 1108
Case Western Reserve, USA
-
CiMOS-22
1970c
Batch oriented disk operating system for the Cincinnati Milacron CIP/2200.
Cincinnati Milacron CIP/2200
USA
-
SIRIS (4 versions)
1970
Operating system for CII 1070 and IRIS computers.
CII computers
Compagnie internationale pour l'informatique, France
-
DSM-11
1970s
Database oriented operating system for MUMPS applications on the PDP-11 and VAX.
DEC PDP-11 and VAX
DEC, USA
-
DSU
1970s
Data Secure Unix. A Security kernel for Unix.
-
UCLA, USA
-
DUBNA
1970
System monitor for the BESM computers. Emproved version of D-68. Developped by specialists from the Institute of Atomic Energy. I. V. Kurchatov and the JINR Member States (GDR, Hungary, North Korea).
BESM-6
Ural. Sci. Center (JINR in Dubna), Russia
HEP
1970s
Parallel OS for the HEP MIMD Computer.
HEP MIMD
USA
-
SODS/OS
1970s
Operating system for a Distributed System developed on the IBM Series/1.
IBM Series/1
Univeristy of Delaware, USA
-
HITAC OS
1970
First-generation Operating System for the HITAC computers.
Hitachi HITAC-1, HITAC-5, HITAC-55
Hitachi, Japan
E4
1970s
Real time OS for the Modular One.
Computer Technology Modular One
-
-
ECOPS
1970s
Chippewa descendent.
-
Control Data, USA
MPE-3000
1970s
Operating system for HP 3000.
HP-3000
USA
-
IAS
1970s
Interactive Applications System. Operating system for larger PDP-11 systems. Real-time, multiuser, or both.
DEC PDP-11
DEC, USA
UniFLEX
1970s
Unix-like OS from TSC for DMA-capable, extended addresses, Motorola 6809 based computers; e.g. SWTPC, GIMIX and others.
Motorola 6809
Technical Systems Consultants (TSC), USA
Uniq
1970s
Version of UNIX for PDP-11.
DEC PDP-11
Uniq Digital Technologies, USA
-
WPS
1970s
Wang Word Processing System. Micro-code based system.
Wang WPS
Wang Laboratories, USA
MSOS
1970s
Mass storage OS supporting real-time plus batch processing for the CDC System 17.
CDC System 17
USA
-
CP
1970s
Control Program. A component of VM/370 for the IBM/370. CP is the kernel which implements the virtual machine.
IBM System/370
USA
-
M/OS-80
1970s
CP/M like operating system.
Mostek AID-80F
Mostek, USA
SPIRAL
1970
Small general-purpose computer operating system together with extra functions, such as kana-enabled COBOL, suited for office-computer applications that aimed to be user friendly.
Fujitsu FACOM 230
Fujitus, Japan
MSP/7
1970s
Modular System Program 7. Real-time OS for the IBM System/7.
IBM System/7
USA
-
OS ES (2 versions)
1970s
Operating system for ES EVM. Comparable to S/360.
ES EVM
Russia
SSB-DOS
1970s
Smoke Signal Broadcasting. A variant of FLEX in most respects.
-
TSC ?, USA
-
OS IPM
1970
Operating system for the BESM-6 computer.
BESM-6
IPM, Russia
Reduced Core Monitor
1970c
Modular, core-resident standard operating monitor designes dor use on small or very speclized real-time systems.
CDC 1700
Control Data, USA
-
XOS (1)
1970<
Batch Processing OS for the Xerox Data Systems SIGMA Computers.
Xerox Data Systems SIGMA
USA
-
CP-R
1970s
Control Program for Real-Time. Realtime operating system for Xerox 550 and Sigma 9 computer systems.
Xerox 550 and Sigma 9
Xerox, USA
OS/1100
1970s
Operating System for UNIVAC 1106 and 1110.
UNIVAC 1106 and 1110
Sperry Univac, USA
-
Arachne
1970s
Distributed operating system.
-
University of Wisconsin, USA
-
UTM
1970
Universal Time-sharing Monitor. Operating system for a large-scale system capable of simultaneously performing batch processing, remote batch processing, real-time processing and time-sharing processing.
Mitsubishi MELCOM-7000
Mitsubishi, Japan
-
ARPA
1970
Operating system for the ARPANET.
-
Lawrence Roberts, B. Wessler, USA
CTS-300
1970s
Commercial single or multiuser OS for small PDP-11 systems.
DEC PDP-11
DEC, USA
-
MaRTE OS
1970s
Hard Real-Time Operating System for embedded applications that follows the Minimal Real-Time POSIX.13 subset.
IA-32
University of Cantabria, Spain
RSTS (2 versions)
1970
Resource System Time Sharing. Multi-user time-sharing operating system, initially developed by Evans Griffiths & Hart of Boston, and acquired by DEC for the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers.
DEC PDP-11
DEC, USA
OS/80
1970s
Early OSE version for the Zilog Z80 processor.
Z80
ENEA, Sweden
-
MUMPS
1970
Multi-user multiprogramming, database oriented OS for DEC computers.
DEC computers
USA
-
OPUS-1
1970s
Multi task operating system for Computer Automation's NAKED computers.
Computer Automation NAKED MINI
USA
-
DBOS-16
1970
Disk Based Operating System. For General Automation SPC-16 & System 18/30.
General Automation SPC-16 & System 18/30
General Automation, USA
-
OS/RT
1970s
Real-time OS kernel for a variety of CPUs.
-
Destek Group, USA
-
SVS
1970s
Single Virtual Storage. Refers to Release 1 of Operating System/Virtual Storage 2 (OS/VS2); it is the successor system to the MVT option of Operating System/360.
IBM System/360, System/370
IBM, USA
MCTS
1970s
Multiple Console Time Sharing System. Developed to support CAD applications at GM.
-
General Motors, USA
-
OS2000 (1)
1970s
Operating system for Honeywell 200/2000.
Honeywell 200/2000
USA
-
Medusa
1970s
Operating system for Cm* Research Multiprocessor.
Cm* Research Multiprocessor
Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
-
DEMOS (1) (1 versions)
1970c
Message-based OS for the CRAY-1.
Cray-1
Los Alamos, USA
-
RT/EMT
1970s
UNIX compatible OS for the PDP-11.
DEC PDP-11
Human Computing Resources, USA
-
Basic Realtime Monitor
1970s
Realtime OS for the Phillips P-855 and P-860.
Phillips P855 and P860
USA
-
Batch-11/DOS-11
1970
Also known simply as DOS-11 was the first operating system to run on the Digital PDP-11 minicomputer.
DEC PDP-11
DEC, USA
ND-70
1970
New Dispatcher. New operating system for the BESM-6 computer. Used in spacecraft flight control centers.
BESM-6
ITMiVT RAS, Russia
FLEX9
1970s
Successor to FLEX, which was for Motorola 6800 CPUs.
Motorola 6809 based machines
Technical Systems Consultants (TSC), USA
-
Micropower/Pascal
1970s
Small Pascal Operating Environment for the LSI-11.
DEC LSI-11
DEC, USA
-
Berkeley UNIX
1970s
Version of UNIX for VAX, developed at the University of California at Berkeley. Late 1970s through early 1990s. Latest version is 4.4.
DEC VAX
U.C. Berkeley, USA
-
DISTOS
1970s
Distributed OS for a network of 68000s.
68000
USA
-
BKY
1970s
Batch-oriented OS for the CDC 6600.
CDC 6600
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, USA
-
RTOS-16
1970
Real-Time OS.
Digico Micro-16V, General Automation SPC-16
General Automation, USA
-
BLIS/COBOL
1970s
Operating system written in COBOL.
Data General Nova and Data General Eclipse 16-bit minicomputers
Data General, USA
VRX
1970s
Virtual Resource eXecutive. Proprietary operating system on the NCR Criterion series, and later the V-8000 series of mainframe computers manufactured by NCR during the 1970s and 1980s. It replaced the B3 Operating System.
NCR Criterion, V-8000 series
NCR, USA
RTX-16
1970
Realtime executive for General Automation System 18/30.
General Automation SPC-16, Honeywell Series 16
General Automation, USA
-
RTXC
1970s
Quadros RTOS proprietary C-based RTOS used in embedded systems.
ARM - Atmel/Freescale/NXP/ST/TI, Blackfin, 680x0-ColdFire, PowerPC, StarCore, TI-Luminary Stellaris, TI OMAP, XScale
AT Barrett and Associates, Quadros Systems, USA
BOS (3)
1970s
Batch operating system for Honeywell System 700.
Honeywell System 700
Honeywell, USA
-
BOS (4)
1970s
Operating system for Billings computers.
Billings computers
USA
-
KRONOS
1970
Kronographic OS. Timesharing OS for CDC 6000 and CYBER computers based on Chippewa. Replaced later by NOS.
CDC 6000 series and successors
Control Data, USA
FSOS-16
1970
Free Standing Operating System. Basic memory-resident OS for General Automation SPC-16 mini.
General Automation SPC-16
General Automation, USA
-
2120 Disk operating system
1971c
Disc operating system for HP-2100.
HP-2100
Hewlett-Packard, USA
AIST-O
1971
Time-sharing operating system with batch and multi-access.
-
Russia
-
SIRENA
1971
Time-sharing operating system for airline reservations.
-
Russia
-
TYMNET
1971
Operating system for the Tymnet network.
SPC-12, SDS-940, Varian 620
Tymes, USA
LTSS
1971<
Lawrence Timesharing System. Early Timesharing OS.
CDC 7600
Lawrence Livermore Labs, USA
-
UNIX (9 versions)
1971
Family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix.
-
Bell Labs, USA
UNIX Time-Sharing System (10 versions)
1971
"Ken's new system," for its creator (Ken Thompson), officially Unics and then Unix, the prototypic operating system eated in Bell Labs in 1969 that formed the basis for the Unix family of operating systems.
DEC PDP
Bell Labs, USA
UTS (1)
1971
Universal Time-Sharing System. Time Sharing Operating System for Xerox SIGMA computers.
Xerox SIGMA
Xerox, USA
OS/8
1971
Primary operating system used on the Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-8 minicomputer. Ancestor of RT-11.
PDP-8
DEC, USA
RSX-15
1971<
Real-time multitasking executive for DEC PDP-15.
DEC PDP-15
DEC, USA
-
OSII
1971
Operating system for Fujitsu’s large-scale general-purpose computers FACOM 230-45S and FACOM 230-55.
Fujitsu FACOM 230-45S and Fujitsu FACOM 230-55
Fujitsu, Japan
-
DISPAK
1971
Dispetcher Paketov. Operating system for the BESM-6 computer. Used in Atomic research.
BESM-6
ITMiVT RAS, Russia
BOS II
1971
BOS with Multiprocessing of up to 4 jobs.
Fujitsu FACOM 230 and 235
Fujitsu, Japan
-
BPS-99
1972c
Business oriented operating system for the GRI-99.
GRI-99
USA
-
2000E
1972c
Timesharing operating system.
HP-2100
Hewlett-Packard, USA
-
DOS (3)
1972<
Disk Operating System.
Interdata, Lockheed computers, HP-2100; Datapoint 1100, 2200, 5500, DEC PDP-11; Prime 100,200,300, Four-Phase System IV, GEC Computers, Computer Automation computers
USA
-
2000F
1972c
Timesharing operating system.
HP-2100
Hewlett-Packard, USA
-
DOS/VS
1972
Successor to DOS/360. First DOS offered on System/370 systems, provided virtual storage.
IBM System/370
IBM, USA
PRIMOS
1972
Sometimes spelled PR1MOS and PR1ME. Written in FORTRAN IV, that didn't have pointers, while later versions, around version 18, written in a version of PL/1, called PL/P.
Prime Computers
Prime Computer, USA
DSC
1972
Network operating system.
-
D.J. Farber, K.C. Larson, USA
-
RDOS (1)
1972
Real-time Disk Operating System. With variants: RTOS and DOS.
Data General Nova
Data General, USA
-
SOC
1972
-
-
M. M. Somia, USA
-
Edos (2)
1972
Enhanced version of IBM's DOS/360 (and later DOS/VS and DOS/VSE) operating system for System/360 and System/370 IBM mainframes.
IBM System/360 and System/370
The Computer Software Company (TCSC), USA
EDOS-MSO
1972
Extended version of EDOS.
Hitachi HITAC 8000
Hitachi, Japan
-
COS (3) (4 versions)
1972
Commercial Operating System. Early OS for the PDP.
DEC PDP-8, PDP-11
USA
OS 6
1972
Simple single-user operating system.
Modular One
Oxford University, UK
MTOS (1)
1972<
Magnetic Tape OS for Datapoint 1100, 2200, 5500.
Datapoint 1100, 2200, 5500
Datapoint, USA
-
MU5
1972<
Operating system for the MU5 computer.
MU5 computer
University of Manchester, UK
-
CTOS (1) (1 versions)
1972<
Cassette Tape OS for Datapoint 1100, 2200, 5500.
Datapoint 1100, 2200, 5500
Datapoint, USA
-
VENUS
1972
Experimental OS for a modified Interdata minicomputer, based on matching the computer architecture to the operating system.
Interdata minicomputers
Barbara Liskov, USA
-
RSX-11 (18 versions)
1972
Realtime multitasking executive for DEC PDP-11. Based on RSX-15.
PDP-11
DEC, USA
MUSIC
1972
McGill University System for Interactive Computing. Operating system developed for the S/370, running normally under VM.
IBM System/370
McGill University, USA
-
VM/370
1972
Virtual Machine Facility/370. Virtual memory operating system. To assist customers in migration from OS/360 to OS/VS.
IBM System/370
IBM, USA
VM/BSEPP
1972
Virtual Machine/Basic Extended Product. Functional ehancement to VM/370.
IBM System/370
IBM, USA
-
OS/SVS
1972
Single Virtual Space. Initial release of OS/VS2. Virtual Storage OS for IBM S/370, based closely on OS/MVT.
IBM System/370
IBM, USA
-
VM/SEPP
1972
Virtual Machine/Extended Product. Functional ehancement to VM/370.
IBM System/370
IBM, USA
-
OS/VS (3 versions)
1972
Port of OS/360 targeted for the System/370 virtual memory architecture, "OS/370" is not correct name for OS/VS1 and OS/VS2, but rather refers to OS/VS2 MVS and MVS/SP Version 1.
IBM System/370
IBM, USA
-
SYSEX
1972<
System Executive. A time-sharing monitor for SIGMA/2 and small IBM S/360 computers.
SIGMA/2 and small IBM S/360
USA
-
OS7
1972
Large-scale software system that supported a virtual space and multiple processors.
Hitachi HITAC 8700/8800
Hitachi, Japan
-
RTE (4 versions)
1972c
Real-Time Exucutive. Realtime operating system for Hewlett-Packard HP-2000 series.
HP-2000
USA
-
DNEPR-2
1972
Time-sharing operating system for the DNEPR-2.
DNEPR-2
Russia
-
VS-1
1972
IBM Virtual Storage OS. See OS/VS1.
-
IBM, USA
-
VS-2
1972
IBM Virtual Storage OS. See OS/VS2.
-
IBM, USA
-
TOSBAC-1350 SO
1973
First-Generation Operating Systems for the TOSBAC-1350.
Toshiba TOSBAC-1350
Toshiba, Japan
SCP (2)
1973
System Control Program. Basic OS for the Burroughs B700 series.
Burroughs B700 series, IBM System/3
USA
-
CCP
1973<
Communications Control Program. Limited OS for the IBM System/3.
IBM System/3
IBM, USA
-
DX10
1973>
General purpose, multitasking operating system designed to operate with the Texas Instruments 990/10, 990/10A and 990/12 minicomputers using the memory mapping feature.
TI-990
Texas Instruments, USA
MPE (9 versions)
1973
HP Multi-Programming Executive.
HP-3000 and HP e3000
Hewlett-Packard, USA
Elbrus-1
1973
Soviet computer – created using high-level language uЭль-76 (AL-76/ALGOL 68).
Elbrus computers
Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering, Russia
-
ELF
1973
Multiprogrammed OS for the PDP-11.
DEC PDP-11
USA
REALITY
1973
Early version of PICK.
Microdata 1600
USA
-
EMAS (2 versions)
1973c
Edinburgh Multi-Access System for ICL 4-75.
ICL 4-75
University of Edinburgh, UK
CP-V
1973
Compatible successor to UTS. It supported the same CPUs as UTS plus the Xerox 560.
Xerox 550/560 and Sigma 9
Xerox, USA
ARGOS (1)
1973<
ARGonne Operating System.
Xerox Sigma 5
Argonne National Laboratory, USA
-
Executive (2)
1973c
Used on the 1900 and 290x range of minicomputers. A modified version of Executive was also used as part of GEORGE 3 and 4.
ICL 290x series
ICL, UK
RSEXEC
1973
Experimental, network-wide operating system allowing access to resources distributed on various hosts on the ARPANET based principally on TENEX. The concept have been implemented in the National Software Works (NSW).
-
R.H. Thomas, USA
-
OS/700
1973c
Realtime multiprogramming OS for Honeywell System 700.
Honeywell System 700
USA
-
VME (4 versions)
1973
Virtual Machine Environment. Mainframe operating system. Implementation language S3 (ALGOL 68).
ICL 2900 Series, ICL Series 39 mainframes
ICL, UK
MERIT
1973
Operating system for the MERIT network.
-
Eric Aupperle, USA
RT-11 (11 versions)
1973
Single user OS.
DEC PDP-11
DEC, USA
BB
1973c
Business Basic. BASIC language and operating system for Basic Four computers.
MAI Basic Four
MAI Basic Four, USA
NDOS
1973
Developed for users of small to medium machines with main storage sizes generally ranging between 32 KB and 64 KB.
Hitachi HITAC 8250
Hitachi, Japan
-
VOS (1)
1973<
Virtual machine OS running on the Michigan Terminal System.
Michigan Terminal System
USA
-
BEST (1)
1973
Porgramming language and Operating system for the NEAC System 100 Office computer.
NEC NEAC System 100
NEC, Japan
BEST (2)
1973<
Business Executive System for Timesharing. OS for Qantel Minicomputers.
Qantel Minicomputers
Qantel, USA
-
TMS
1973<
Magnetic tape operation system based on 4K disk monitor system (DMS), but reconfigured to improve speed and performance on a magnetic tape.
DEC PDP-8
DEC, USA
-
DNOS (1)
1973>
Distributed Network Operating System. General purpose, multitasking operating system designed to operate with the Texas Instruments 990/10, 990/10A and 990/12 minicomputers.
TI-990
Texas Instruments, USA
BOSS (3 versions)
1974<
Basic Operating Software System. Based on UNOS by Charles River Data Systems (CDRS).
MAI Basic/Four 350/400/500
MAI Basic Four, USA
-
TOS (2)
1974<
Teletype Operating System for the Microdata 1600 & 3200 minicomputers.
Microdata 1600 & 3200
USA
-
BOSS-15
1974<
Batch OS for the DEC PDP-15.
DEC PDP-15
USA
-
SAX
1974<
Real time OS for Mod Comp Computers.
ModComp Computers
USA
-
TOSBAC-1150 System IV
1974
First-Generation Operating Systems for the TOSBAC-1150 office computer.
Toshiba TOSBAC-1150
Toshiba, Japan
NUCLEUS
1974<
Operating System for GEC Computers.
GEC Computers
GEC Computers, UK
-
BS1000
1974
Operating system adopted for the Unidata series of computers.
Unidata computers
Siemens, Germany
DOS-15
1974<
Disk OS for DEC PDP-15.
DEC PDP-15
USA
-
ACOS-2 (4 versions)
1974
Advanced Comprehensive Operating System-2. Operating system for small computer systems.
NEC ACOS System 200
NEC, Japan
-
MODULAR ONE
1974<
Portable, modular OS.
-
University of Warwic, UK
-
MODUS4
1974<
Operating system for Computer Technology minicomputers.
Computer Technology minicomputers
USA
-
TS8/E
1974<
Timesharing OS for the DEC PDP-8.
DEC PDP-8
USA
-
MONECS
1974
Monash University Educational Computing System. Was a computer operating system with BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal interpreters, plus machine language facility.
DEC PDP-11
Monash University, Australia
TSS (2)
1974<
Timesharing OS for General Automation System 18/30.
General Automation System 18/30
USA
-
Cambridge Ring
1974
Experimental local area network architecture.
-
Cambridge University, UK
CAPS-11
1974<
Cassette Monitor System for the DEC PDP-11.
DEC PDP-11
DEC, USA
-
CAPS-8
1974<
Cassette Monitor system for the DEC PDP-8.
DEC PDP-8
DEC, USA
-
ACOS-6 (4 versions)
1974
Large general-purpose operating system that realized multi-dimensional processing.
NEC ACOS Systems 600, 600S, 700, 800, 900 and 1000
NEC, Toshiba, Japan
-
UCLA VM
1974<
Virtual machine system developed at UCLA for modified PDP-11/45 for data security studies.
DEC PDP-11/45
UCLA, USA
-
COS (2)
1974<
Cassette OS for Computer Automation Alpha LSI and Naked Mini LSI.
Computer Automation Alpha LSI and Naked Mini LSI
USA
-
HYDRA
1974
Early (now discontinued) capability-based, object-oriented, microkernel designed to support a wide range of possible operating systems to run on top of it.
C.mmp Research Multiprocessor
Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
UMMPS
1974<
Virtual machine system for the IBM 360/67.
IBM System/360-67
USA
-
COS (4)
1974<
Concurrent Operating System. Provided limited multiprogramming for Univac 9200, 9300.
UNIVAC 9200, 9300
USA
-
COS (5)
1974<
Operating System for GEC Computers.
GEC Computers
USA
-
SOS (2)
1974<
Standalone OS for Data General Nova & Supernova.
Data General Nova & Supernova
USA
-
CP/M (7 versions)
1974
Originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created for Intel 8080/85-based microcomputers.
i8080/i8085/i8086 and Zilog Z80, Z8000
Digital Research, USA
MTDS
1974<
Magnetic Tape OS for Computer Automation Alpha LSI & Naked Mini LSI.
Computer Automation Alpha LSI & Naked Mini LSI
Computer Automation, USA
-
AOS (1)
1974
All-round Operating System. The first OS for Office computers.
Mitsubishi MELCOM 80
Mitusbishi, Japan
MTS (2)
1974<
Magnetic Tape System for HP 2100.
HP-2100
USA
-
AOS (2)
1974>
Advanced Operating System for Data General Eclipse and MV series.
Data General Eclipse
Data General, USA
-
CPPS
1974<
Card/Paper Tape Programming System for the IBM 1130.
IBM 1130
IBM, USA
-
UTS/VS
1974
Operating system for Mitsubishi COSMO mainframes.
Mitsubishi COSMO series
Mitsubishi, Japan
-
Multi-Programming Executive
1974
Discontinued business-oriented mainframe computer real-time operating system. While initially a mini-mainframe, the final high-end systems supported 12 CPUs and over 2000 simultaneous users.
HP-3000
Hewlett-Packard, USA
-
OS/MVS
1974
Multiple Virtual Space. Virtual storage OS for IBM 370, derived from MVT. Originally called VS2, Release 2.
IBM System/370
IBM, USA
-
MAX (4 versions)
1974<
Real-time monitor for a fixed set of processes linked into a single memory image.
ModComp computers
Modular Computer Systems, USA
UNIOS (4 versions)
1974
Operating system for the FACOM V series, developed jointly by Fujitsu, USAC Electronic Industrial and Uchida Yoko.
Fujitsu FACOM V
Fujitsu, Japan
NCOS (1)
1974<
Nonconcurrent OS. Tape or disk based OS for Univac 9200 & 9300.
UNIVAC 9200 & 9300
USA
-
Tape Scope 2
1974<
Tape based OS derived from SCOPE for the CDC System 17.
CDC System 17
USA
-
VORTEX
1974<
Omnitasking realtime executive for Varian minicomputers.
Varian minicomputers
USA
-
BCS
1974<
Basic Control System for HP-2100.
HP-2100
Hewlett-Packard, USA
-
RTEX
1974<
Realtime executive for Interdata minicomputers.
Interdata minicomputers
USA
-
BEST (3)
1974<
Basic Executive & Timekeeper. OS for Varian minicomputers.
Varian minicomputers
USA
-
RTMS
1974<
Realtime multiprogramming OS for General Automation System 18/30.
General Automation System 18/30
USA
-
RTOS (1)
1974<
Real-Time Disk OS for Interdata Minicomputers.
Interdata Minicomputers
USA
-
RTOS (2)
1974<
Real time operating system for Data General Nova.
Data General Nova
USA
-
Newcastle Recursive VM
1974<
Virtual Machine system developed on a Burroughs 1700.
Burroughs 1700
USA
-
RTOS (3)
1974<
Real time multiprogramming OS for Prime 100, 200, 300.
Prime 100, 200, 300
USA
-
Min I
1974<
Basic Operating System for the ModComp Computers.
ModComp Computers
USA
-
DMS (2)
1974<
Disk Monitor System for General Automation System 18/30.
General Automation System 18/30
USA
-
RTS/8
1974
Compact real-time operating system designed for the PDP-8 family of processors.
DEC PDP-8
USA
BMS
1974<
Basic Monitor System.
DEC PDP-9 and PDP-15
DEC, USA
-
BOS (2)
1974<
Basic OS for Interdata (later Perkin-Elmer) minicomputers.
Interdata computers
Interdata, USA
-
PDP-10
1974<
Virtual machine system for the PDP-10.
DEC PDP-10
USA
-
BOS/VS
1974
BOS with Virtual memory control.
Fujitsu FACOM 230 and 235
Fujitsu, Japan
-
NSW
1975
National Software Works. Descendent of RSEXEC.
-
Jonathan Postel, USA
-
BS2000 (5 versions)
1975
Now BS2000/OSD from Fujitsu-Siemens Computers (formerly Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme).
Fujitsu-Siemens mainframes
Siemens, Germany
-
ACOS-4 (8 versions)
1975
Advanced Comprehensive Operating System-4. Small-to-medium machines.
NEC ACOS System 300, 350, 400, 450, 500
NEC, Japan
-
CB Unix
1975c
Variant of the UNIX operating system used internally at Bell Labs for administrative databases and transaction processing.
-
Bell Labs, USA
Altair DOS 1.0
1975
Early disk operating system for the Altair 8800 machine.
Altair 8800
MITS, USA
-
MOSS
1975c
Modular OS for the RCA SUMC Computer (Space Ultrareliable Modular Computer). A realtime OS designed to be modifiable.
RCA SUMC
S&H Computing, USA
-
DSOS
1975
Deep Six Operating System. Was a real-time operating system (sometimes referred to as an operating system kernel) developed by Texas Instruments' Geophysical Services division (GSI).
TI-980A minicomputer
Texas Instruments, USA
SOLO
1975
Single-User Research Operating System. Written in Concurrent Pascal, to demonstrate its concurrency mechanism at the California Institute of Technology.
DEC PDP-11/45
Per Brinch Hansen, USA
ICL VME
1975~
Appearing on the ICL 2900 Series and Series 39 mainframes, implemented in S3.
ICL 2900 Series and Series 39 mainframes
ICL, UK
OS/32-MT
1975c
Real time serial and multitasking operating systems for Interdata (later Perkin-Elmer) 7/16 and 7/32 minicomputers.
Interdata 7/16 and 7/32, Concurrent computers
USA
-
OS/32-ST
1975c
Real time serial and multitasking operating systems for Interdata (later Perkin-Elmer) 7/16 and 7/32 minicomputers.
Interdata 7/16 and 7/32, Concurrent computers
USA
-
DCN
1975
Operating system for a distributed network of PDP-11 virtual machines at the University of Maryland.
DEC PDP-11
David Mills, USA
VM2000
1975
Hypervisor from Fujitsu (formerly Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme) designed specifically for use with the BS2000 operating system. It is an EBCDIC-based operating system.
Siemens BS2000
Siemens, Germany
-
ISIS (2 versions)
1975
Intel Systems Implementation Supervisor. Was an environment for development of software within the Intel microprocessor family in the early 1980s on their Intellec Microcomputer Development System and clones.
i8080, i8085+L818
Intel, USA
OSIV/F4
1975
One of the operating systems for Fujitsu’s FACOM M series general-purpose computers, and was a super-large general-purpose OS.
Fujitsu FACOM M series
Fujitsu, Japan
VOS2
1975
Was the first OS for the HITAC M series, which was a series of Hitachi's general-purpose computers.
Hitachi HITAC M series
Hitachi, Japan
-
VSOS
1975c
Virtual Storage Operating System. Operating system for the Cyber 205 pipelined processor.
Cyber 205
USA
-
Cambridge CAP computer
1976
All operating system procedures written in ALGOL 68C, with some closely associated protected procedures in BCPL.
-
Cambridge University, UK
-
EDX
1976
Event Driven Executive. computer operating system originally developed by IBM for the control of research laboratory devices and experiments.
IBM Series/1
IBM, USA
IBM Series/1
1976
Minicomputer OS.
IBM Series/1
IBM, USA
CP-6
1976
Discontinued computer operating system developed by Honeywell. It was a backward-compatible work-alike of the Xerox CP-V fully rewritten for Honeywell Level/66 hardware.
Honeywell Level/66
Honeywell, USA
CPS (2)
1976>
Control Programming Support, subset of RPS.
IBM Series/1
IBM, USA
Cray Operating System
1976
New name for UNICOS.
Cray computers
USA
-
FLEX (1)
1976
Single-tasking operating system.
Motorola 6800, 6809
Technical Systems Consultants (TSC), USA
VOS1 (3 versions)
1976
Operating system for lower models in Hitachi's HITAC M series of general-purpose computers, was the second OS in the M series following VOS2.
Hitachi HITAC M series
Hitachi, Japan
-
NonStop OS
1976>
Message-based operating system designed for fault tolerance.
Tandem Computers, HP's NonStop line of Itanium servers
Tandem, USA
NOS (1) (3 versions)
1976
Network Operating System. Operating system with time-sharing capabilities. Based on KRONOS.
CDC CYBER, CDC 6000
Control Data, USA
BOS/D
1976
Business Oriented System. Floppy-disk oriented operating system for OKITAC office computers.
Oki OKITAC System 9
Oki, Japan
BOS/F
1976
Business Oriented System. Hard-disk oriented operating system for OKITAC office computers.
Oki OKITAC System 9
Oki, Japan
TOPS-20
1976
Proprietary OS used on some of DEC's 36-bit mainframe computers.
DEC PDP-10
DEC, USA
1BSD
1977
See Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).
-
U.C. Berkeley, USA
-
OASIS
1977
Renamed THEO in 1983. The first multi-user operating system for 8-bit microprocessor based computers (Z-80 from Zilog).
Z80
Phase One Systems, USA
OIS
1977
Wang Office Information System. Successor to the WPS. Combined the WPS and VP/MVP systems.
Wang computers
Wang Laboratories, USA
DPS (3 versions)
1977
Multitask version of AOS.
Mitusbishi MELCOM 80
Mitusbishi, Japan
CDOS
1977c
Disk Operating system compatible with CP/M.
Cromemco computers
Cromemco, USA
PWB/UNIX
1977
Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX). Early, now discontinued, version of the Unix operating system created in the Bell Labs Computer Science Research Group of AT&T.
-
Bell Labs, USA
TX990/TXDS
1977<
Terminal Executive Development System. Proprietary operating systems for TI-990 minicomputers.
TI-990
Texas Instruments, USA
MP/AOS
1977>
Operating System for microNOVA-based computers.
Data General microNova
Data General, USA
-
Elbrus-2
1977
Used for application, job control, system programming, implemented in AL-76.
Elbrus computers
Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering, Russia
-
IBM System/34
1977
IBM midrange computer OS.
IBM System/34
IBM, USA
SSP
1977
System Support Program. operating system for the IBM System/34 and System/36 minicomputers. SSP was a command-based operating system.
IBM System/34 and System/36
IBM, USA
-
Virtual Memory System (VMS)
1977
DEC's proprietary operating system originally produced for its VAX minicomputer. Renamed "OpenVMS" around version 5.5.
DEC VAX
DEC, USA
-
muPro-80D
1977c
Multi-User, Multi-Task Disk System.
-
muPro Inc., USA
-
OS4000
1977
Operating system introduced as the successor to GEC DOS, for its range of GEC 4000 series 16-bit, and later 32-bit, minicomputers.
GEC 4000 series
GEC Computers, UK
VMS (8 versions)
1977
Originally by DEC and HP now by VMS Software Inc. for the VAX mini-computer range, Alpha and Intel Itanium i2 and i4; later renamed OpenVMS.
DEC VAX-11
DEC, USA
-
OSIV/F2
1977
One of the operating systems for Fujitsu’s FACOM M series general-purpose computers, and was a medium-scale general-purpose OS for medium-scale business operations.
Fujitsu FACOM M series
Fujitsu, Japan
OSIV/X8
1977
One of the operating systems for Fujitsu’s FACOM M series general-purpose computers, and was a large general-purpose OS positioned between super-large general-purpose OS OSIV/F4 and medium general-purpose OS OSIV/F2.
Fujitsu FACOM M series
Fujitsu, Japan
-
THEOS
1977
Operating system which started out as OASIS, a microcomputer operating system for small computers that use the Z80 processor.
Z80 microcomputers
Phase One Systems, USA
VOS3 (4 versions)
1977c
Virtual-storage Operating System 3. For its IBM-compatible mainframes, based on IBM's MVS.
Hitachi HITAC M series
Hitachi, Japan
-
MINI-UNIX
1977
"Cut down" UNIX v6 for the low-end PDP-11/10.
DEC PDP-10
Bell Labs, USA
-
VPS/VM
1977
Virtual Processing System/Virtual Machine. Was an operating system that ran on IBM System/370 – IBM 3090 computers at Boston University in general use from 1977 to around 1990, and in limited use until at least 1993.
IBM System/370, IBM 3090
IBM, USA
-
BMOS
1977
Developed jointly by Fujitsu, USAC Electronic Industrial and Uchida Yoko.
Fujitsu FACOM Bm
Fujitsu, Japan
KERNAL
1977
Default OS on Commodore computers.
Commodore 8-bit computers
Commodore, USA
Wang VS Operating System (VSOS)
1977
Used on the VS line of minicomputer systems.
Wang VS line
Wang Laboratories, USA
-
L-320/PS
1978
Operating system for the HITAC L-320, a general-purpose intelligent system with such functions as data entry, billing, and remote job entry.
Hitachi HITAC L-320
Hitachi, Japan
2BSD
1978
See Berkeley Software Distribution.
-
U.C. Berkeley, USA
-
TripOS
1978
TRIvial Portable Operating System.
DEC PDP-11, Computer Automation LSI4, Data General Nova, Motorola 68000, i8086, Cintcode BCPL (VM)
University of Cambridge, University of Bath, MetaComCo, UK
TRIX
1978c
Network oriented OS.
-
USA
-
TRSDOS (6 versions)
1978
Floppy-disk-oriented OS supplied by Tandy/Radio Shack for their TRS-80 Z80-based line of personal computers. Eventually renamed as LS-DOS or LDOS.
Tandy TRS-80
Randy Cook, Tandy, USA
DPCX
1978
Distributed Processing Control eXecutive. operating system for the IBM 8100 small computer system. written in the PL/S-like PL/DS language.
IBM 8100
IBM, USA
PSOS (1)
1978c
An Experimental Provably Secure Operating System.
-
USA
-
p-System
1978c
Support environment for UCSD Pascal, based on an abstract "p-machine." Now distributed by SofTech Microsystems.
-
University of California, USA
-
HDOS
1978
Heath Disk OS. Originally written for the H-8, it ran without modification on the H-89.
Heath H8, H-19 and Zenith Z-89 series
Heathkit, Zenith Data Systems, USA
-
MP/OS
1978c
Version of AOS for the Data General Micro-Nova.
Data General Micro-Nova
USA
-
AMIGO/300
1978c
Small, user-friendly OS for the Hewlett-Packard 300.
HP-300
Hewlett-Packard, USA
-
UCSD p-System
1978
Portable complete programming environment/operating system/virtual machine developed by a long running student project at UCSD.
Apple II
University of California San Diego, USA
Ultimate
1978
Version of PICK.
-
The Ultimate Corp., USA
HT-11
1978
Modified version of RT-11.
Heathkit H11
Heathkit, Zenith Data Systems, USA
-
MROS-68K
1978c
Small memory-resident OS for the Motorola 68000.
68000
USA
-
Lisp machine (CADR)
1978
Also known as LMI. Used an operating system written in MIT's Lisp Machine Lisp.
Lisp Machines
USA
-
COS (6)
1978c
Cray Operating System. OS for the Cray-1 Pipelined Supercomputer.
Cray-1
USA
-
IBM 8100
1978
Operating system for IBM’s principal distributed processing engine.
IBM 8100
IBM, USA
IBM System/38
1978
IBM midrange computer OS.
IBM System/38
IBM, USA
Oryx/Pecos
1978
Proprietary operating system developed for the express purpose of running AT&T's large-scale PBX switching equipment.
Definity G3 switches
Bell Labs, USA
StarOS
1978c
One of two major operating systems developed for the Cm* multiprocessor. Based on concept of task forces.
Cm Multiprocessor
Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
-
IMOS
1978c
Interactive Multiprogramming Operating System for the NCR Century 8200 series minicomputers.
NCR Century 8200 series
NCR, USA
REPOS
1978c
Operating System for small PDP-11's attached to a host computer.
DEC PDP-11
USA
-
Research Unix
1978
Term used to refer to versions of the Unix operating system developed in the Bell Labs Computing Science Research Center.
DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX, Interdata 7/32 and 8/32
Bell Labs, USA
REX-80/80
1978c
Operating system for 8080 and 8086.
i8080
Systems & Software, USA
-
RIG
1978c
Rochester Intelligent Gateway. Network OS. Influenced Accent and Mach.
-
University of Rochester, UK
-
CPF
1978
Control Program Facility.
IBM System/38
IBM, USA
AppleDOS
1978
Basic Operating System for Apple II Computers. It was superseded by ProDOS in 1983.
Apple II
Apple, USA
ZEUS
1978c
Version of UNIX.
-
Zilog, USA
-
VAX/VMS
1978c
Standard operating system for DEC VAX. Based on RSX-11.
DEC VAX
USA
-
ZRTS
1978c
Operating System for the Z8000.
Z8000
Zilog, USA
-
Roscoe
1978c
Distributed OS for multiple identical processors (LSI-11s).
NEC LSI-11
University of Wisconsin, USA
-
RPS (2 versions)
1978c
Real-time Programming System. Real-time interactive operating system for the IBM Series/1, based on MSP/7 and MPX/1800.
IBM Series/1
IBM, USA
VERSAdos
1978c
MS-DOS compatible system for 68000.
68000
Motorola, USA
-
MUSS
1978c
Operating system designed to emphasize portability.
-
USA
-
MVS (6 versions)
1978
MVS supported Enterprise System Architecture, horizontal addressing extensions: data only address spaces called Dataspaces. A Unix environment was available starting with MVS/ESA V4R3.
IBM mainframes
IBM, USA
OS-1
1978
Drum memory operating systems for office computers.
NEC NEAC System 100
NEC, Japan
OS-3 (1)
1978
Floppy disk operating systems for office computers.
NEC NEAC System 100
NEC, Japan
OS-4
1978
Disk operating systems for office computers.
NEC NEAC System 100
NEC, Japan
RTOS I
1978<
OS for Randal office LINK computers.
Randall LINK
Randal Data Systems, USA
-
RTOS II
1978<
OS for Randal office LINK computers.
Randall LINK
Randal Data Systems, USA
-
VOS0
1978
Operating system for HITAC L series distributed processing computers.
Hitachi HITAC L-330
Hitachi, Japan
MICROS
1978c
Distributed OS for MICRONET, a reconfigurable network computer.
-
USA
-
p
1978c
Time-sharing OS for laboratory automation.
-
USA
-
RTM8
1978c
Realtime executive for the AMC 95/4000.
AMC 95/4000
USA
-
Thoth
1978c
Real-time operating system which is designed to be portable over a large set of machines.
-
University of Waterloo, Canada
MIGHTY
1978
Operating system for the TOSBAC Kanji office computer.
Toshiba TOSBAC Kanji System 15
Toshiba, Japan
Newark
1978>
Early version of Eden developed for the VAX environment. The name was chosen because it was "far from Eden."
DEC VAX
USA
-
DJS200/XT1
1978c
Operating system for the Chinese DJS210 and DJS220. Multiprogrammed and deadlock-free.
DJS-210 & DJS-220
China
-
Rx
1978c
Real time executive for the Texas Instruments TMS9900.
Texas Instruments TMS9900
USA
-
KSOS
1978c
Kernelized Secure Operating system. UNIX-like OS with a secure kernel.
-
Ford Aerospace, USA
-
_unknown
1979
Xerox 1100 series of Lisp machines used an operating system also written in Interlisp, and was also ported to a virtual machine called "Medley".
Xerox 1100
Xerox, USA
-
WFS File Server
1979
Simple share file system for distributed environment.
Xerox Alto
USA
TPF
1979
Transaction Processing Facility. IBM real-time operating system for mainframe computers descended from the IBM System/360 family, including zSeries and System z9.
IBM System/360, System/370, IBM z Series
IBM, USA
TRIPOS
1979<
Portable OS for Minicomputers. PDP-11, 68000 series, 32000 series.
DEC PDP-11, 68000, 32000 series
USA
-
BSD (1 versions)
1979
Berkeley Software Distribution, a variant of Unix for DEC VAX hardware.
DEC VAX
U.C. Berkeley, USA
ChorusOS
1979
Proprietary microkernel OS, rival of Mach and a RTOS, (now acquired by Sun Microsystems) for telecommunication devices (cellphones, etc.) and network appliances (webphones, set top boxes, etc...).
x86, 68000, PPC, SPARC,ARM, MIPS
INRIA, France
GNOSIS
1979
Operating system being to run on 37O architecture hardware. GNOSIS offers new approaches to solving the inherent problems of security, auditability, and reliability which are a result of the basic design of current systems.
IBM System/370
Tymshare, USA
COCANET UNIX
1979c
Local network operating system based on UNIX, developed for the COCANET local area network.
-
U.C. Berkeley, USA
-
Alto OS
1979
Alto operating system.
Xerox Alto
Xerox, USA
-
AMEX
1979
Altos Multiuser Executive. Support up to four simultaneous users.
Altos ACS 8000
Altos, USA
MP/M (4 versions)
1979
Multi-Programming Monitor Control Program. Discontinued multi-user version of the CP/M operating system.
i8080, i8085, Z80, i8086, i80286
Digital Research, USA
UCLA Secure UNIX
1979
Early secure UNIX OS based on security kernel.
-
UCLA, USA
UNIX/32V
1979
Early version of the Unix operating system. 32V was a direct port of the Seventh Edition Unix to the DEC VAX architecture.
DEC VAX
Bell Labs, USA
Apple Pascal
1979
Operating system for Apple II.
Apple II
Apple, USA
CPS80
1979
Operating System for FACOM System 80 office computer. Derived from BMOS.
Fujitsu FACOM System 80
Fujitsu, Japan
Cromix
1979
Multi-tasking, multi-user, Unix-like OS. first Unix-like operating system for microcomputers.
Cromemco microcomputers with Z80A and/or 68000 CPU
Cromemco, USA
-
EUMEL
1979c
Extendable multiUser Microprocessor ELan system. Was an OS with persistent processes and data spaces, built to offer a standalone environment for the educational programming language ELAN. Later evolutions of EUMEL comprise the L3 and L4 OSes.
Z80, i8086, 68000, Z8000
GMD, Jochen Liedtke, Germany
Atari DOS
1979
Disk operating system used with the Atari 8-bit family of computers.
8-bit Atari computers
Atari, USA
Idris (3 versions)
1979
Multi-tasking, Unix-like, multi-user, real-time operating system.
68000, 8086, DEC PDP-11, VAX, Atari ST, Apple Macintosh
Whitesmiths, USA
SOCO
1979
Sistema Operacional em Disco.
Poti
Instituto Tercio Pacitti - NCE, Brazil
-
CTS-500
1979<
Commercial single or multiuser OS for small PDP-11 systems.
DEC PDP-11
DEC, USA
-
ITOS
1979
Interactive Tutorial Operating System. Was Japan’s first dialog-based operating system and was developed to be backward compatible with OS-1 and OS-4 user software assets from the earlier-shipped NEAC System 100.
NEC NEAC System 100/150,
NEC, Japan
MICRODOS
1979
Operating system for TRS-80 not using a command shell like TRSDOS but used extensions to BASIC. MICRODOS had no file system. All disk accesses were made using the starting sector and length.
Tandy TRS-80
Percom, USA
NLTSS
1979
Network Livermore Timesharing System, also sometimes known as the New Livermore Time Sharing System. Was an operating system that was actively developed at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
CDC 7600
Lawrence Livermore Labs, USA
VTOS
1979
Virtual Technology’s Operating System. The second TRS‑80 Model I operating system.
Tandy TRS-80
Randy Cook, Virtual Technology, USA
PERQ Operating System (POS)
1980s
Written in PERQ Pascal.
PERQ Computers
PERQ, USA
-
TOS (5)
1980s
Teradata Operating System.
Teradata DBC/1012
Teradata, USA
-
_unknown
1980s
Texas Instruments' Explorer Lisp machine workstations also had systems code written in Lisp Machine Lisp.
Lisp machine
Texas Instruments, USA
LAN Manager
1980s
Network operating system available from multiple vendors and developed by Microsoft in cooperation with 3Com Corporation. It was designed to succeed 3Com's 3+Share network server.
-
Microsoft, USA
Waterloo Port
1980s
PC-DOS version.
IBM PC compatibles
Waterloo Microsystems, USA
-
TP/M
1980s
Version of CP/M for the Epson QX-10.
Epson QX-10
Epson, Japan
-
DOS 3.3
1980s
Standard OS for Apple II Computers.
Apple II
Apple, USA
-
WICAT Multiuser Computer System (WMCS)
1980s
MC-68K multiuser OS for their proprietary microcomputers, used mainly for CBT systems.
WICAT Systems
WICAT, USA
NZ-COM
1980s
Z-System based on CP/M 2.2
Altair
Alpha Systems, USA
86-DOS
1980
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.)
i808x
Seattle Computer Products, USA
-
BS3000
1980s
Functionally similar to OS-IV and MSP from Fujitsu.
Fujitsu-Siemens mainframes
Siemens, Germany
Pilot operating system
1980
Pilot operating system (used in Xerox Star workstations) was written in the Mesa programming language.
Xerox Star
Xerox, USA
DOS KP (1 versions)
1980s
RSTS/E-like soviet operating system.
SM-4, SM-1420, SM-1600
Russia
-
BSO/RTOS
1980s
Small real-time OS for Z80, 6809, 8086, 68000.
Z80, 6809, i8086, 68000
Boston Systems Office, USA
-
DOS/VSE
1980s
Virtual Storage Extended. Also known as VSE, upgrade of DOS/VS, up to 14 fixed size processing partitions.
IBM 43XX
IBM, USA
MOD-400
1980s
Operating system for the Honeywell VPS 6.
Honeywell VPS 6
USA
-
SCP-DOS
1980s
DOS acquired by Bill Gates to create MS_DOS. See 86-DOS.
IBM PC compatibles
Seattle Computer Products, USA
-
GENIX
1980s
UNIX version for the NSC 32016.
NSC 32016
National Semiconductors, USA
-
polyFORTH
1980s
FORTH environment for Z80, 8080, 8086, 6809, 68000, and PDP-11 families.
Z80, i8080, i8086, 6809, 68000, and DEC PDP-11
FORTH, USA
-
DPPX
1980s
Distributed Processing Programming Executive. operating system introduced by IBM, pre-installed on the IBM 8100 and later ported to the ES/9370.
IBM 8100, ES/9370
IBM, USA
SDOS
1980s
Operating System for 6809.
M6809
Software Dynamics, USA
-
PRO/TSX-PLUS
1980s
Version of TSX-PLUS for the PRO-350.
DEC PRO-350
S&H Computer Systems, USA
-
TurboDos
1980s
Enhanced multitasking version of CP/M for Z80 and 8086.
Z80 and i8086
Software 2000, USA
-
Siemens S5-DOS/MT
1980s
Industrial control system based on FlexOS.
-
Digital Research, USA
Prolog-Dispatcher
1980s
Used to control Soviet Buran space ship.
Buran
Russia
ADOS
1980s
Soviet MS-DOS equivalent.
ISKRA 1030/1130
Russia
-
Charlotte
1980s
Distributed OS for the Crystal Multicomputer project. Explores coarse-grained parallelism without shared memory for computationally intensive tasks.
Crystal Multicomputer
University of Wisconsin, USA
-
PTSS
1970s
People's Time Sharing System. A time sharing system for the CDC 6600 based on BKY.
CDC 6600
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, USA
-
QDOS (1)
1980c
Quick and Dirty Operating System. Simplified version of CP/M for the i8086.
-
Tim Patterson/Seattle Computer Products, USA
-
QDOS (2)
1980s
Operating system for the British Sinclair QL. Power of UNIX, SuperBASIC command language, up to 20 concurrent tasks with windows.
Sinclair QL
USA
-
QP/M
1980s
Complete CP/M compatible replacement for CCP and BDOS.
Altair
MICROCode Consulting, USA
CMDS
1980c
Cambridge Model Distributed System. Sets out to provide, by means of a number of interconnected mini- and microcomputers, facilities that are similar to those provided by a time-sharing system.
-
University of Cambridge, UK
-
RAFOS
1980s
Real-time System with Buffer Functions. Soviet RT-11 clone.
SM EVM
Russia
MOS (4)
1980s
p-code system for Z80, 8080, 8086, 68000.
Z80, i8080, i8086, 68000
Volition Systems, USA
-
DRM System
1980s
UNIX-Compatible system for 68000.
68000
-
-
GUARDIAN
1980s
Operating System for Tandem NonStop Computers, featuring high reliability.
Tandem NonStop
USA
-
ALPHA-DOS
1980s
MS-DOS-like Soviet operating system.
ES-1840
Russia
-
MOSIX
1980s
Distributed version of UNIX supporting full transparency and dynamic process migration for load balancing.
-
Hebrew University of Jersusalem, Israel
-
Color BASIC
1980c
ROM-based OS created by Microsoft for the TRS-80 Color Computer.
Tandy TRS-80
Tandy, USA
-
CONDOR
1980s
Distributed OS described as a "hunter of idle workstations," which distributes large computationally intensive jobs among available processors in a workstation pool. Renamed HTCondor.
-
University of Wisconsin, USA
Eden
1980s
Distributed object-oriented OS based on an integrated distributed network of bit-mapped workstations. Capability-based.
-
University of Washington, USA
-
AMOS (1 versions)
1980s
Alpha Micro Operating System. Multiuser, multiprocessing OS for the 68000 family of microprocessors.
68000, 683xx, x86 via emulation
Alpha Microsystems, USA
MPX-32
1980s
Operating system for Gould Concept-32 computers.
Gould Concept-32
USA
-
ULTRADOS
1980
Originally called Level IV DOS. Operating system for the Tandy TRS-80 Level IV Products.
Tandy TRS-80
Vernon Hester, USA
AMX RTOS
1980
Real-time operating system.
68000, 683xx, ARM, ColdFire, MIPS32, PowerPC
Kadak, USA
UMD
1980s
Operating system for 8080, 6800, 68000, Z8000 series, and others.
i8080, 6800, 68000, Z8000
Boston Systems Office, USA
-
EIS-110
1980s
Real-time executive for 8086.
i8086
Electronic Information Systems, USA
-
uNETix
1980s
Network OS for the 8086, 68000, & 16032 families. Multitasking with transparent remote file access, load balancing, and multiple windows. UNIX and PC-DOS compatible.
i8086, 68000, & 16032 families
Lantech Systems, USA
-
IBM 4680 OS (1 versions)
1980s
POS operating system based on FlexOS.
IBM 4680, i286
Digital Research, USA
UniPlus+
1980s
Discontinued commercial version of the Unix System III and System V operating systems for the 68000.
68000
Unisoft Systems, USA
SOS (3)
1980c
Sophisticated OS for the Apple III.
Apple III
USA
-
WIZRD
1980s
Small OS for the M6800.
Motorola 6800
Wintek, USA
-
SPHERE
1980s
Real-time, ROM-based development system.
-
Infosphere, USA
-
M86
1980s
Soviet version of CP/M-86. All commands are in Russian.
ES-1840, ES-1841
Russia
-
Emerald
1980s
Distributed object-based operating system based on fine-grained (object level) mobility.
-
University of Washington, USA
-
IBM System/88
1980s
IBM fault tolerant computer OS.
IBM System/88
IBM, USA
MSP (1)
1980s
Multitasking system Program. Real-time executive for 68000 and Z8000. Uses a "split onion" structure with access to all layers.
68000 and Z8000
Hemenway, USA
-
XENIX (2 versions)
1980
Licensed version of Unix. Licensed to SCO in 1987.
IBM PC compatibles, x86, DEC PDP-11, Z8001, 68000
Microsoft, SCO, USA
OS DVK
1980s
Soviet RT-11 clone.
DVK ( Elektronika MS-0501 and Elektronika MS-0502)
Russia
-
MTK-II
1980s
Small real-time kernel for Z80, 6502, 6800, 8086, 68000.
Z80, 6502, 6800, i8086, 68000
United States Software, USA
-
OS MIKROS-86
1980s
Soviet operating system for the SM-1810 computer.
SM-1810
Russia
-
REGULUS
1980s
System III based Unix clone, with V6, V7, and SysV extensions.
68000
Alcyon, USA
-
O/S
1980s
Operating system for Intel 8086 and M68000.
i8086, 68000
Applied Systems, USA
-
OS RV
1980s
RSX-11M-like multiprogramming operating system. The command are in english.
SM-4, SM-1420, Elektronika-100-25
Russia
STARPLEX II
1980s
Realtime OS for the Z80A.
Z80A
National Semiconductors, USA
AOS (3)
1980s
BSD Unix version, not related to Data General AOS.
-
IBM, USA
AOS/VS
1980s
Operating System for 32-bit (MV series) Eclipse computers.
Data General Eclipse MV (32-bit)
Data General, USA
-
OS-80 (2 versions)
1980
Formerly MICRODOS. Fast extendable BASIC-language disk operating system.
Tandy TRS-80
Percom, USA
-
Apple III
1980
Operating system for Apple III.
Apple III
Apple, USA
OS-9 (1 versions)
1980
Family of real-time, process-based, multitasking, multi-user operating systems.
ARM-strongARM, MIPS, PowerPC, SuperH, x86/Pentium, XSCALE, Motorola 6809, 680x0, SPARC
Microware Systems, USA
RIO/CP
1980
Network operating system for the ZNET.
Zilog ZNET
USA
-
STRATUS
1980s
Operating system for Stratus-32 Computers.
Stratus-32
Stratus Technologies, USA
-
UNIX-RTR
1980s
See DMERT.
DEC PDP-11
Bell Labs, USA
-
INMOS
1980s
Unix compatible soviet operating system with command in english.
SM-4, SM-1420, Elektronika-100-25, ES-1840, ES-II, ES-III
Russia
-
Apple SOS
1980
Sophisticated Operating System. Primary operating system developed for the Apple III computer.
Apple III
Apple, USA
Z3PLUS
1980s
Z-System based on CP/M 3.
Altair
USA
SUNIX
1980s
Version of UNIX for Z8002.
Z8002
SGS-Ates, Italy
-
EUROS
1980s
Real-Time Operating Systems.
8/16/32 bit processors (AVR, 8051, XC800, 16FX, XC166, ARM, Cortex-M3, PowerPC, Nios II, MIPS32, PIC32)
Euros Embedded Systems, Germany
RM/COS
1980s
Multiuser, multiprocessing OS for 68000. Cobol-based business environment for an abstract C-machine.
68000
Ryan-McFarland, USA
-
ZCPR3
1980s
based on the original by Richard Conn.
Altair
Richard Conn, USA
Zenix
1980s
Zenith Unix.
Zenith computers
Zenith, USA
-
Exelsior
1980s
Operating system for the Kronos workstation.
Kronos
Akademgorodok, Kronos Research Group, Russia
-
RMS09, RMS68K
1980s
Real time operating system for 6809 and 68000 family.
6809, 68000
Motorola, USA
-
EWS-UX/V
1980s
Operating system for NEC workstations based on Unix System V.
NEC EWS/4800
NEC, Japan
-
RMX (2 versions)
1980
Real-time operating system designed specifically for use with the Intel 8080 and Intel 8086 family of processors.
i8080 and i8086
Intel / TenAsys Corporation, USA
SuperDOS
1980s
CP/M 2.2 with SuperDOS as BDOS replacement.
Altair
USA
ZSDOS
1980s
CP/M 2.2 with ZSDOS as BDOS replacement.
Altair
USA
ARX
1980s
Unreleased Mach-like operating system written in Modula-2+.
ARM RISC processors based Archimedes computers range
Acorn Computers, UK
CTOS (2)
1980s
Real time, multitasking, multiprocessing OS for 8086 family.
i8086
Convergent Technologies, USA
-
AMS (2)
1980s
Operating system for DEC minicomputers.
DEC PDP, DEC VAX
ITC, Romania
-
ROS (2)
1980s
Operating system with Ada Support.
i8086, 68000
Telesoft, USA
-
CTSS (2)
1980s
Cray Timesharing System. Successor to LTSS.
Cray-1
Lawrence Livermore Labs, USA
-
CX/RT
1980s
Operating system for Harris Night Hawk series.
Harris Night Hawk
USA
-
MULTI-FORTH
1980s
FORTH operating environment for the 68000.
68000
Creative Solutions, USA
-
CX/UX
1980s
Operating system for Harris Night Hawk series.
Harris Night Hawk
USA
-
MINOS (1)
1980s
Operating system for DEC minicomputers.
DEC PDP, DEC VAX
ITC, Romania
-
MASTER-11
1980s
Soviet RT-11 clone.
DVK ( Elektronika MS-0501 and Elektronika MS-0502)
Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute, Russia
-
Multiuser DOS
1980s
Successor of Concurrent DOS 386. Commercial DOS clone by Concurrent Controls.
IBM PC compatibles
Concurrent Controls, USA
FOBOS-3
1980s
Single-user background operating system basic operating system. Soviet RT-11 clone.
Elektronika 60
Russia
-
AGAT DOS
1980s
Analog to Apple-DOS fopr russian MS-DOS computers.
Microcomputers
Minradioprom, Russia
-
AUROS
1980s
Unix III version. Reliable Operating System for the fault-tolerant minicomputer AURAGEN System 4000.
AURAGEN System 4000
Auragen, USA
-
MBOS/5
1980s
Multitasking version of BOS/5.
-
USA
-
DIAMS-2
1980s
Database dialog OS for SMEP computers.
SMEP
Russia
-
VM/SP
1980
Virtual Machine/System Product.
IBM System/370
IBM, USA
-
MDOS
1980s
Operating System for the Data General MV4000.
Data General MV/4000
USA
-
FAMOS
1980s
Multitasking 8080 OS.
i8080
MVT Microcomputer Systems, USA
-
MAGDOS
1980s
OS for SMEP computers based on ERC-RAPOS.
-
Russia ?
-
MIKROS
1980s
Operating system used by the czech SAPI-1 microcomputer.
SAPI-1
-
-
RSX180
1980
Multi-user, multi-tasking, RSX-11M-like OS for Z80 and Z180 processors.
Z80 and Z180 processors
-
-
MeikOS
1980s
Unix-like transputer operating system developed for the Computing Surface.
Meiko Computing Surface
Meiko, UK
RT86
1980
True pre-emptive, multi-user, multi-tasking OS for 8086 chip and Hartley 3900 in particular.
Hartley 3900
Hartley, Australia
-
iRMX
1980
Real-time operating system originally created to support the Intel 8080 and 8086 processor families in embedded applications.
8080, 8086, 80386 or higher
Intel, USA
SCHOOLGIRL (SHKOL'NITSA)
1980s
Line of software including an improved AGAT-DOS.
-
Computing Center - USSR Academy of Science, Russia
-
DES RT
1980s
Real-time, Unix-like OS for 16-bit microprocessor families and Micro-Vax, DGC MV series.
Micro-Vax, DGC MV series
Destek Group, USA
-
IRX
1980s
Operating system for NCR 8200 series.
NCR 8200
USA
-
IS/3
1980s
Version of UNIX (System 3) for PDP-11 and VAX.
DEC PDP-11 and VAX
Interactive Systems, USA
-
NEIRON-DOS1
1980s
Soviet MS-DOS 3.0 compatible operating system.
Neiron I9.66
Russia
NEIRON-DOS2
1980s
CP/M-86-like operating system.
Neiron I9.66
Russia
DESQview + (1 versions)
1980s
QEMM 386 multi-tasking user interface.
IBM PC compatibles
Quarterdeck, USA
-
MERT
1980s
Multi-Environment Real-Time. Was a hybrid time-sharing/real-time operating system developed for use in embedded minicomputers (in particular PDP-11s). It was later renamed UNIX Real-Time (UNIX-RT).
DEC PDP-11
Bell Labs, USA
-
DESQView/X
1980s
X-windowing GUI.
-
Quarterdeck, USA
NEMIGA OS
1980s
Soviet RT-11 clone.
Nemiga PK 588
Russia
-
BB/M (4 versions)
1980s
Business Basic Micro. Adanced version of BB. BASIC language and Operating system for Basic Four computers. Similar to BB3/BB4.
MAI Basic Four
MAI Basic Four, USA
VOS (3)
1980s
Virtual Operating System. Proprietary operating system running on Stratus Technologies fault-tolerant computer systems. With strong influence from Multics.
i860, x86, PA-RISC, 68000
Stratus Technologies, USA
MIKRODOS
1980s
Soviet counterpart to CP/M-80. Compatible with versions 2.2 and 3.1.
-
MIIPU, Russia
-
Ten15
1980s
Algebraically specified abstract machine. Successor of Flex machine.
-
Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Malvern, UK
OSx
1980s
Operating System for Pyramid Computers. Supports UNIX System V and BSD 4.2 concurrently.
Pyramid Computers
USA
-
P/OS
1980s
Professional Operating System. Standard OS for the PRO-350 and PRO-380. Derived from RSX-11.
DEC PRO-350 and PRO-380
DEC, USA
-
FOBOS-2
1980s
Single-user background operating system basic operating system. Soviet RT-11 clone.
Elektronika 60
Russia
-
P2DOS
1980s
CP/M 2.2 with P2DOS as BDOS replacement.
Altair
USA
FODOS
1980s
Soviet RT-11 clone.
Elektronika 60, Elektronika MS 0511, MS 05017502
Russia
-
Newcastle Connection
1980s
Network OS layer for UNIX systems providing transparent distributed access.
-
UK
NewDos/80
1980
Third-party OS for Tandy's TRS-80 personal computers.
Tandy TRS-80
Apparat, USA
DMERT
1980s
Duplex Multi Environment Real Time. Operating system for the AT&T 3B20D telephone switching minicomputer, designed for high availability. DMERT was later renamed Unix RTR (Real-Time Reliable).
AT&T 3B20D
Bell Labs, USA
-
RTUX
1980s
Real time OS based on Unix for 68000 based systems. Multiprocessing, multitasking, message driven.
68000
Emerge Systems, USA
-
TME (1 versions)
1980
Transaction Machine Environment. was the operating system on the ME29 and required CL (Control Language) to run jobs - 'manual' operation being discouraged.
ICL ME29 minicomputer
ICL, UK
VS
1980s
Operating system for Wang VS series systems.
Wang VS
Wang Laboratories, USA
-
TMX
1980s
Transaction Management eXecutive. NCR Corporation's proprietary transaction processing system running on NCR Tower 5000-series systems which were based on Motorola 680xx CPUs.
NCR Tower 5000
NCR, USA
DNOS (2)
1980s
Operating system for NCR computers.
NCR computers
USA
-
PC/NOS
1980s
Network OS for MS-DOS or CP/M.
-
Applied Intelligence, USA
-
RUDOS
1980s
Soviet RT-11 clone.
Elektronika MS 0511
Russia
-
VSE/SP
1980s
Program product replacing DOS/VSE and VSE/AF.
IBM mainframes
IBM, USA
RX116
1980s
See I-TRON.
NEC V20, NEC V30, NEC V40, NEC V50
NEC, Japan
NovaDOS
1980s
CP/M 2.2 with NovaDOS as BDOS replacement.
Altair
USA
RX616
1980s
See I-TRON.
NEC V60, NEC V70
NEC, Japan
PDOS
1980s
Multiuser, multitasking, realtime OS for the 68000, and TI-9900 and 9905.
68000, and TI-9900 and TI-9905
Eyring Research, USA
BOS/5
1980s
Business Operating Software. Business oriented OS for Z80, PDP-11, 8086, and 68000.
Z80, PDP-11, i8086, and 68000
BOS National, USA
-
RX-UX832
1980s
See Mustard.
NEC V60, NEC V70
NEC, Japan
S5
1980s
Operating system for the ALTOS computer (?).
ALTOS computer
USA
-
BOS/NET
1980s
Multitasking, multiprocessing version of BOS/5.
-
USA
-
ACCENT
1981<
Network OS kernel for the PERQ workstation.
PERQ workstation
Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
-
Acorn MOS
1981
Discontinued computer operating system used in the Acorn BBC computer range.
Acorn BBC
Acorn Computers, UK
Business Operating System
1981
Operating system initially developed as an early cross-platform operating system, originally produced for Intel 8080 and Motorola 6800 computers, then redeveloped for actual businesses and business models.
i8080, Motorola 6800, Zilog Z80, DEC PDP-11, VAX
CAP, UK
DOSPLUS
1981<
Operating system for the Tandy TRS-80. Substantial extension of TRSDOS, including support for double density disks.
Tandy TRS-80
Micro Systems Software, USA
-
AEGIS
1981
Discontinued operating system used by the Apollo/Domain line of workstations.
Apollo/Domain workstations
Apollo Computer, USA
MP/NET
1981<
Version of MP/M with networking facilities.
-
Digital Research, USA
-
MP/NOS
1981<
Memory-resident, diskless version of MP/NET.
-
Digital Research, USA
-
MS-DOS (17 versions)
1981
Microsoft's DOS variant for OEM, developed jointly with IBM, versions 1.x–6.22 Microsoft's now abandoned DOS variant.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
Lisa Operating System
1981
Lisa Operating System.
Apple Lisa
Apple, USA
Lisa Workshop
1981
The Workshop is a program development environment and is almost entirely text-based, though it uses a GUI text editor.
Apple Lisa
Apple, USA
IBM PC DOS
1981
DOS developed jointly with Microsoft.
IBM PC compatibles
IBM, Microsoft, USA
iMAX 432
1981
Operating system for Intel's iAPX 432 capability machine.
Intel iAPX 432
Intel, USA
XINU
1981
Limited Unix lookalike developed for educational purposes, for use with a text by Comer "XINU Is Not Unix.
DEC PDP-11 and VAX systems, Sun-2 and Sun-3 workstations, Intel x86, PowerPC G3 and MIPS
Purdue University, USA
CP/M-86 (4 versions)
1981
Version of the CP/M operating system that Digital Research made for the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088. The system commands are the same as in CP/M-80
i8088/i8086, Siemens PG685, Siemens PC16-20, IBM PC compatibles
Digital Research, USA
Enterprise/OS
1981c
Operating system for DG MicroNOVA.
Data General MicroNOVA
Data General, USA
-
CP/NET
1981
Networking version of CP/M. Enables microcomputers to access common resources via a network. CP/NET allows microcomputers to share and transfer disk files, to share printers and consoles, and to share programs and data bases.
i8080, i8085, or Z80
Digital Research, USA
-
CP/NOS
1981<
Memory-resident, diskless version of CP/NET.
i8080, i8085, or Z80
Digital Research, USA
-
REX-80/86
1981
Operating system for 8080 and 8086. Real-time executive that offers 16-bit microprocessing and coprocessing support.
i8086
Systems & Software, USA
XOS (2)
1981<
Operating System for the experimental X-Tree Computer Architecture.
-
University of California at Berkelely, USA
-
UNOS
1981
First, now discontinued, 32-bit Unix-like real-time operating system (RTOS) with real-time extensions.
68000
Charles River Data Systems, USA
-
UTS (2)
1981
Discontinued implementation of the UNIX operating system for IBM mainframe (and compatible) computers.
Amdahl 599x, Fujitsu Global Server, IBM ES/9000 series, IBM G4, G5 and G6
Amdahl, USA
V
1981
Discontinued microkernel operating system that was developed by faculty and students in the distributed systems group at Stanford University.
Sun workstations, MicroVAX workstations
Stanford University, USA
MULTIDOS (2 versions)
1981
Disk Operating System for the Tandy TRS-80. Features ability to read and write various file formats. Briefly advertised as ULTRA-II.
Tandy TRS-80 Model 1
Cosmopolitan Electronics, USA
DBLDOS
1981<
Operating system for the Tandy TRS-80. Simple updates to TRSDOS to support the Percom double-density board.
Tandy TRS-80
Percom Data, USA
-
MERLIN (1)
1981
Mini OS for 68000 computers.
68000, Corvus Concept
Silicon Valley Software, USA
-
PC DOS (8 versions)
1981
IBM's DOS variant, developed jointly with Microsoft.
IBM PC compatibles
IBM, Microsoft, USA
BLMX-80
1981
Board-level multitasking executive for National Semiconductor 8080 and Z-80 based CPU boards.
National Semiconductor 8080 and Z-80
National Semiconductors, USA
-
VRTX
1981
Versatile Real-Time Executive. Real-time operating system suitable for both traditional board-based embedded systems and SoC architectures. It has been superseded by the Nucleus RTOS.
ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, RISC
Mentor Graphics, USA
K-DOS
1981
An alternative OS to the Atari Disk Operating System (DOS II) for the Atari 400/800.
Atari 400/800
K-Byte, USA
Domain/OS (9 versions)
1981
One of the first network-based systems. Run on Apollo/Domain hardware. Later bought by Hewlett-Packard.
Appollo, Domain workstations
Apollo Computer, USA
LDOS
1982
Operating system for TRS-80. Originally stood for "Lobo Drives Operating System.
Tandy TRS-80 Models I, II & III
Logical Systems, USA
DPS10
1982
Operating for MELCOM 80 office computers. Groundbreaking operating system for its time. Based on the process management, memory management, file system, and other kernel operations of UNIX System II.
Mitsubishi MELCOM 80 OFFICELAND models 500
Mitusbishi, Japan
TurboDOS
1982
Multi user CP/M like operating system for the Z80 and 8086 CPUs.
Z80, i8086
Software 2000, USA
pSOS (2)
1982
Portable Software On Silicon. real time operating system (RTOS) and developed/marketed for the first part by Software Components Group (SCG).
68000
Alfred Chao, SCG, ISI, Wind River Systems, USA
QNX
1982
POSIX, microkernel OS. Usually a real time embedded OS), Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market.
i8088, x86, MIPS, PowerPC, SH-4, ARM, StrongARM, XScale
Quantum Software Systems, Canada
Commodore DOS
1982
Disk operating system used with Commodore's 8-bit computers.
Commodore 8-bit
Commodore, USA
Ultrix (1 versions)
1982
Brand name of Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) discontinued native Unix operating systems for the PDP-11, VAX and DECstations.
PDP-11, VAX and DECstation
DEC, USA
Unity
1982
Version of UNIX for the PDP-11 and VAX.
DEC PDP-11 and VAX
Human Computing Resources, USA
-
MTOS (2)
1982<
Multitasking, Multiprocessing OS for 8086 and 68000 families.
8086 and 68000
Industrial Programming, USA
-
Star User Interface
1982
Graphical user interface for the Xerox Star.
Xerox Star
Xerox, USA
-
Stratus VOS
1982
Developed by Stratus, and used for IBM System/88, Original equipment manufacturer from Stratus.
IBM System/88, Stratus computers
IBM, USA
-
CROS/D
1982
Conversation Real-time Oriented System. Floppy Disk Operating system for OKITAC System 9 series.
Oki OKITAC System 9 series
Oki, Japan
CROS/F
1982
Conversation Real-time Oriented System. Hard-disk Operating system for OKITAC System 9 series.
Oki OKITAC System 9 series
Oki, Japan
Gemini (1)
1982
Stadard operating system for Wordplex Word processors.
Wordplex
Wordplex, USA
SVM ES (3 versions)
1982
Sistema Virtual'nykh Mashin. IBM VM/370 clone.
RIAD ES
Russia
AVM/EF
1982
Advanced Virtual Machine/Extended Facilities. Was an operating system that controlled Fujitsu’s virtual computer (VM: Virtual Machine) system.
Fujitsu FACOM M-380, M-360, M-340, M-700 series, VP series E model
Fujitsu, Japan
DEMOS (2)
1982
Dialogovaya Edinaya Mobilnaya Operatsionnaya Sistema. MNOS alternative.
SM-4, Elektronika-1082, BESM, ES EVM, SM-1700, IBM PC compatibles
Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, DEMOS Co-operative, Russia
MINI-EXEC
1982<
Portable executive for 8-bit microcomputers.
8-bit microcomputers
USA
-
Novell NetWare (S-Net) (4 versions)
1983
Network operating system and the set of network protocols it used to talk to client machines on the network.
Motorola 68000
Novell, USA
Personal CP/M-86
1983
Was only provided for several specific European computers by the manufacturers Siemens PG685 and PC16-20, Apricot PC.
i8086
Digital Research, USA
MNOS
1983
MobilNaya Operatsionnaya Sistema. One of the most widely distributed OS UNIX type in the Soviet Union.
-
IPK Minavtoproma, DEMOS Co-operative, Russia
ProDOS (2 versions)
1983
Name of two similar operating systems for the Apple II series of personal computers. The original ProDOS, renamed ProDOS 8 in version 1.2, is the last official operating system usable by all 8-bit Apple II series computers.
Apple II
Apple, USA
TUNIS
1983<
Toronto University System. Unix-like operating system. TUNIS was a portable operating system compatible with Unix V7, but with a completely redesigned kernel, written in Concurrent Euclid.
DEC PDP-11, Motorola 6809 and 68000, and National Semiconductor 32016
University of Toronto, Canada
GNU
1983
Also known as GNU/Hurd. Operating system and an extensive collection of computer software. GNU is composed wholly of free software, most of which is licensed under the GNU Project's own General Public License.
IA-32, Alpha, ARC, ARM, AVR32, Blackfin, C6x, ETRAX CRIS, FR-V, H8/300, Hexagon, Itanium, M32R, m68k, META, MicroBlaze, MIPS, MN103, OpenRISC, PA-RISC, PowerPC, s390, S+core, SuperH, SPARC, TILE64, Unicore32, x86, Xtensa
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Coherent
1983
Coherent Unix-like OS from Mark Williams Co. for PC class computers.
IBM PC compatibles
Mark Williams Corp., USA
Concurrent DOS (6 versions)
1983
Successor of Concurrent CP/M-86 with PC-MODE.
i8080, i8086, i286, i386, 68000
Digital Research, USA
Lisa Office System 7/7
1983
GUI environment for end users.
Apple Lisa
Apple, USA
-
LOCUS
1983
Distributed OS based on UNIX.
DEC PDP-11, VAX-11
UCLA, USA
IBM System/36
1983
IBM midrange computer OS.
IBM System/36
IBM, USA
MSX-DOS
1983
MSX-DOS. Developed by MS Japan for the MSX 8-bit computer.
MSX computers
Microsoft, USA
STOP (2 versions)
1983
Secure Trusted Operating Program. Monolithic kernel operating system. Though it provides a Linux-compatible API, STOP is not derived from Unix or any Unix-like system. TCSEC A1-class, secure OS for SCOMP hardware.
SCOMP processor
BAE Systems, USA
SunOS (12 versions)
1983
BSD-based Unix system used on early Sun hardware.
-
Sun Microsystems, USA
VENIX (5 versions)
1983
Discontinued version of the Unix operating system for low-end computers.
DEC PRO-350 (PDP-11 comp.), DEC Rainbow 100, IBM PC
VenturCom, USA
Visi On
1983
First GUI for early PC machines. Not commercially successful.
IBM PC compatibles
VisiCorp, USA
MeDos-2
1983
Single user OO Operating System for the Lilith Computer, developed with Modula-2 modules. programming.
Lilith Computer
S. E. Knudsen, ETHZ, Switzerland
NetWare
1983
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.
Alpha, ARM, PA-RISC, 68k, MIPS, PowerPC, SH3, SPARC, RISC-V, VAX, x86
Novell, USA
DNIX
1983
Unix-like real-time operating system.
68000
Dataindustrier, Sweden
MIOS3 (4 versions)
1983
Operating system for HITAC L-30 and 50 series of office computers.
Hitachi HITAC L-30 and 50
Hitachi, Japan
MIOS7 (3 versions)
1983
Operating system for HITAC L-70 series of multifunctional office computers.
Hitachi HITAC L-30 and 50
Hitachi, Japan
Personal CP/M
1984c
ROM-based version of CP/M 2.2 for small home computers.
Z80
Digital Research, USA
miTRON
1984>
Micro Indutrial TRON. OS for Small embedded systems.
-
Japan
-
TR-DOS
1984
Disk operating system for the ZX Spectrum with Beta Disc and Beta 128 disc interfaces.
ZX Spectrum
Technology Research, UK
TRON
1984
The Real-Time Operating System Nucleus. Specification for a family of real-time operating systems and an associated CPU architecture.
-
TRON Project, University of Tokyo, Japan
BTRON
1984
Business-oriented version of the TRON OS for office workstations with bitmapped displays. Now Chokanji.
-
Personal Media, Japan
C Executive
1984<
Memory-based real-time UNIX-like executive for the PDP-11 or VAX. Runs multiple C or Pascal Tasks.
DEC PDP-11 or VAX
JMI Software Consultants, USA
-
TSX-PLUS
1984<
RT-11 compatible multitasking, multiprocessing OS for PDP-11 family.
DEC PDP-11
S&H Computer Systems, USA
-
Sinclair QDOS
1984
Multitasking operating system found on the Sinclair QL personal computer and its clones.
Sinclair QL
Sinclair, UK
SINIX
1984
Port by SNI of Unix to the MIPS architecture.
MIPS
Siemens Nixdorf, Germany
TWOS
1984c
Time Warp Operating System. OS developed for the Mark III Hypercube multiprocessor, primarily to support asynchronous discrete event simulation. Synchronizes events by unlimited process rollback.
Mark III Hypercube multiprocessor
Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Classic Mac OS
1984
Colloquial term used to describe a series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple.
Apple Macintosh
Apple, USA
OS/10
1984<
Operating System for the MDS Series 21.
MDS Series 21
USA
-
Concurrent CP/M (5 versions)
1984
Successor of CP/M-80 and MP/M-80.
IBM PC compatibles
Digital Research, USA
DYNIX (1 versions)
1984
DYNamic UnIX. Unix-like operating system developed by Sequent Computer Systems, based on 4.2BSD and modified to run on Intel-based symmetric multiprocessor hardware.
-
Sequent Computer Systems, USA
Concurrent PC DOS (1 versions)
1984
Concurrent DOS variant for IBM compatible PCs.
IBM PC compatibles
Digital Research, USA
HP-UX (3 versions)
1984
HP's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V (initially System III).
HP-9000 and Itanium servers
Hewlett-Packard, USA
AMSDOS
1984
AMStrad Disk Operating System. Disk operating system for the 8-bit Amstrad CPC Computer (and various clones).
Amstrad CPC
UK
Mac OS (6 versions)
1984
Operating system for the Apple Macintosh.
Apple Macintosh
Apple, USA
-
Xenix 286
1984
Xenix 286, Unix System V Release 2 based distribution for the Intel 80286 architecture.
i286
SCO Group, USA
Apple Macintosh
1984
Operating system for Apple Macintosh.
Apple Macintosh
Apple, USA
SUN
1984<
General Purpose OS kernel for the HP 9000 Series 500.
HP-9000 Series 500
USA
-
USX
1984<
Real-time development system for 8086, 68000.
i8086, 68000
United States Software, USA
-
Argus
1984<
Distributed programming system featuring resilient objects.
-
MIT, USA
-
CSI-DOS
1984
Operating system, created in Samara, for the Soviet Elektronika BK-0011M and Elektronika BK-0011 microcomputers.
Elektronika BK-0010
Russia
RMS
1984<
Operating system for Datapoint computers.
Datapoint computers
USA
-
UTX-32
1984<
Unix-based OS that included both BSD and System V characteristics. It was one of the first Unix based systems to receive NSA's C2 security level certification.
Gould Powernode 9080
Gould CSD, USA
-
CSP (4 versions)
1984
Customer-oriented System Products. Operating system developed jointly by Fujitsu and USAC Electronic Industrial (which later became PFU) for the FACOM K series of office computers.
Fujitsu FACOM K
Fujitsu, Japan
OS/2 (2)
1984<
Operating System for the MDS Series 21.
MDS Series 21
Mohawk, USA
-
MacWorks
1984
Apple Lisa computer program which shipped with the Macintosh XL. It allowed 64K Apple Macintosh ROM emulation so the Macintosh XL could run classic Mac OS programs.
Apple Lisa
Apple, USA
VAXELN
1984<
Realtime object-oriented OS for the MicroVAX.
DEC MicroVAX
USA
-
VM/PC
1984<
Version of VM/370 for the PC/370.
IBM System/370
IBM, USA
-
VM/XA MA
1984
Virtual Machine/Extended Architecture Migration Assistance. Tool to assist in migration from MVS/370 to MVS/XA.
IBM System/370
IBM, USA
-
Native CPC-OS
1984
Amstrad CPC native OS.
Amstrad CPC
Amstrad, UK
DeskMate
1984
Operating system introduced with the Tandy 1000 computer.
Tandy 1000
Tandy, USA
-
OSIV/ESPIII
1984
Successor OS to medium-scale general-purpose OS OSIV/ESP V2. medium-scale general-purpose operating system.
Fujitsu FACOM M series
Fujitsu, Japan
ITOS-4(V)
1984
Operating system for NEC System 100 and System 150 office computers. Versatile version of ITOS.
NEC System 100/58, 150/68, and 150/78
NEC, Japan
VOS (2)
1984<
Operating System for Harris 600, 700, 800 computers.
Harris 600, 700, 800
USA
-
RTE-6/VM
1984<
Realtime virtual memory OS for dual HP-1000s, featuring high reliability.
HP-1000
USA
-
RTE-A
1984<
Realtime Executive for HP-1000 A-series.
HP-1000
USA
-
MicroVMS
1984
Version of VMS for the MicroVAX.
DEC MicroVAX
DEC, USA
-
RTR
1984<
Successor to DMERT for the AT&T 3B20 Duplex computer, featuring high reliability.
AT&T 3B20 Duplex computer
USA
-
NIDOS
1984<
Operating system for the Nixdorf 8890.
Nixdorf 8890
USA
-
RTTS
1984<
Real Time Task Scheduler. OS for August Systems Can't Fail 300 with triple 8086s, featuring high reliability.
August Systems
USA
-
PC/IX
1984
Derivated from UNIX System III from AT&T.
IBM PC compatibles
IBM, USA
KMON
1984
Operating system for the Soviet personal computers BK-0010.
Elektronika BK-0010
P. A. Bandaletov and E. M. Bandaletov, Russia
VULCAN
1984<
Operating System for Harris computers.
Harris computers
USA
-
S1
1984
Modular building block OS adaptible to various configurations. 8080, 8086 and 68000 families.
i8080, i8086 and 68000
Multi-Solutions, USA
-
Saguaro
1985c
Distributed OS supporting varying degrees of transparency.
-
Univeristy of Arizona, USA
-
MIPS RISC/os
1985
Discontinued UNIX operating system developed by MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. from 1985 to 1992, for their computer workstations and servers
MIPS workstations
MIPS Computer Systems, USA
TOS (4)
1985
Operating system for the Atari 520ST and 1040ST. Derived from Concurrent 68K.
Atari 520ST and 1040ST
USA
-
MISS
1985
Multipurpose Interactive timeSharing System. First Soviet UNIX-like operating system.
ES-1010, ES-1045, D3-28M, IBM PC compatibles, DVK
Physical Faculty of Moscow State University, Russia
Total OA Processor
1985
Operating Systems for the TOSBAC Q Series.
Toshiba TOSBAC Q series
Toshiba, Japan
Windows
1985
16-bit and 32-bit preemptive and cooperative multitasking, running atop MS-DOS.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
Windows 1.0 (1 versions)
1985
First version of Microsoft Windows.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
DOS Plus
1985
Single-user, multi-tasking system derived from Concurrent DOS 4.1 – 5.0.
-
Digital Research, USA
ABCenix
1985>
Unix-like real-time operating system. Developed for the ABC 1600 computer from Luxor.
Luxor ABC 1600
Dataindustrier, Sweden
-
GEM (1)
1985
Graphics Environment Manager.
CP/M, DOS, and Atari TOS
Digital Research, USA
GEM (2)
1985c
Generalized Executive for Realtime Multiprocessor Applications. An experimental OS for robotics systems.
-
Ohio State University, USA
-
DOS-16
1985c
MS-DOS-like Soviet operating system for the ES-1840 computer. Commands are in English and Russian.
ES-1840
Russia
-
Plurix
1985
Aka Tropix. Integrated environment (OS/programming language combination) based on Java with a custom native code compiler for x86, an orthogonal persistent Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) for PC clusters, with a consistency model based on restartable transactions coupled with an optimistic synchronization scheme.
-
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Brazil
SerIX
1985<
Unix on Series/1. CMI version of AT&T's UNIX System V OS.
IBM Series/1
-
GOS/VS
1985
Operating system for the MELCOM EX series general-purpose computers.
Mitsubishi MELCOM EX
Mitsubishi, Japan
MOS (5)
1985c
An early version of MOSIX. Controls four linked PDP-11s.
DEC PDP-11
USA
-
DSP/BIOS
1985
Embedded tools ecosystem created and offered by Texas Instruments (TI) for use in a wide range of their embedded processors.
Mostly Texas Instruments C2800, C5500, C6000 and OMAP DSP cores, TI-RTOS
Texas Instruments, USA
AmigaDOS
1985c
Basic operating system for Amiga computers. Derived from TRIPOS.
Commodore Amiga
Commodore-Amiga, Canada
-
AmigaOS (11 versions)
1985
Family of proprietary native operating systems of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers.
Commodore Amiga
Commodore-Amiga, Canada
SODA
1985c
Simplified OS for Distributed applications.
-
USA
-
AMOK
1985c
A Modular Operating Kernel for the CRAY-1 at the Institute for Defense Analysis. A modular timesharing system providing files, directories, processes, and pipes.
Cray-1
USA
-
Unicos
1985
Name of a range of Unix-like operating system variants developed by Cray for its supercomputers. UNICOS is the successor of the Cray Operating System (COS).
Cray-1, Cray-2
Cray, USA
EMBOS (1)
1985c
Developed by Elxsi for use on their mini-supercomputers.
Elxsi mini-supercomputers
Elxsi, USA
-
INOS
1985c
UNIX lookalike for the Artisan DP-09 (6809 CPU). Based partly on Uniflex.
Artisan DP-09
Introl, USA
-
Interactive Unix System V/386
1985
Port of the UNIX System V operating system for Intel x86.
x86
Interactive Systems, USA
-
XYLEM
1985c
Operating system for the Cedar Multiprocessor, a high-speed, floating point, shared memory. Based on version 4.2 of Unix.
Cedar Multiprocessor
University of Illinois, USA
-
Mach
1985
Kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University to support operating system research, primarily distributed and parallel computing.
-
Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
ETen Chinese System
1985
Was the most popular DOS-compatible traditional Chinese operating system before Chinese Windows 95.
IBM PC compatibles
E-TEN, China
RISC/os
1985
Port by MIPS for its MIPS-based computers.
MIPS computers
MIPS Technologies, USA
EXOS Basic
1985
OS and BASIC for the Elan Enterprise 64/128.
Elan Enterprise 64/128
Hong-Kong
-
Atari TOS (4 versions)
1985
The Operating System. Also Tramiel Operating System, from Jack Tramiel, owner of Atari Corp. at the time. The operating system of the Atari ST range of computers.
Atari ST
Atari, USA
MUSIC/SP
1985
Multi-User System for Interactive Computing/System Product. Operating system developed for the S/370, running normally under VM.
IBM System/370
McGill University, USA
FADOS
1985c
Operating System for the Fast Amsterdam Multiprocessor (FAMP). A distributed, Real-time OS based on a network of M68000s with a UNIX host.
68000
USA
-
VM/XA SF
1985
Virtual Machine/Extended Architecture System Facility. Allow the machine to provide execution in the virtual-machine environment of most of the instructions (including many privileged instructions) and most of the facilities (such as dynamic address translation) of both the System/370 and the 370-XA architectures.
IBM System/370
IBM, USA
-
ELIS-OS
1985c
OS for ELIS-8000 386x computer.
x86
NTT Intelligent Technology, Japan
Meglos
1985c
Operating system for a multiprocessor supercomputer, built from multiple 68000s and a VAX. Provides virtual circuits for two-way and broadcast messages.
68000 and DEC VAX
USA
-
Banyan VINES
1985
Network operating system for computers running AT&T's UNIX System V.
-
Banyan Systems, USA
V-marc Operating System
1985
Operating system on cartridge.
V-mark 88a
V-Marc, USA
-
Z
1985<
-
Z80, Z800, HD62801, HD64180
Echelon, Inc., USA
-
DESQview
1985
Text mode multitasking operating environment.
IBM PC compatibles
Quarterdeck, USA
DG/UX
1985
Unix operating system.
Eclipse MV minicomputer line, AViiON workstation and server line
Data General, USA
Microdisk Op Sys
1985c
Operating system for MS2000.
RCA MS2000
RCA, USA
-
TI-RTOS Kernel
1985
Real-time operating system for TI's embedded devices.
Texas Instruments TMS320 DSPs, ARM, MSP430
Texas Instruments, USA
PC-UX
1985c
Discontinued NEC port of UNIX System III for their APC III and PC-9801 personal computer. It had extensive graphics capability.
NEC APC III, PC-9801
NEC, Japan
KMOS
1985c
Kernel of a Multiprocess Operating System. Designed for educational use in conjunction with a textbook.
-
Milenkovic, USA
-
PCUNIX
1985c
Small, inexpensive UNIX lookalike.
-
Wendin, USA
-
PCVMS
1985c
Small, inexpensive VMS lookalike.
-
Wendin, USA
-
GEOS
1986
Graphic Environement OS for various kinds of computers (including old 8-bit), that comes with a GUI and various office applications.
IBM PC, Commodore, Apple computers
Berkeley Softworks, USA
AIX (12 versions)
1986
Advanced Interactive eXecutive. System V Unix version. Series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms.
-
IBM, USA
GS/OS (5 versions)
1986
Operating system developed by Apple Computer for its Apple IIGS personal computer that uses the ProDOS filing system.
Apple IIGS
Apple, USA
UMIPS (1 versions)
1986
MIPS Computers' first operating system, a port of Berkeley's BSD4.3 version of UNIX.
RISC CPU
MIPS Computer Systems, USA
S-OS
1986
Minimal DOS for Z80 machines.
Sharp, NEC, MSX, Z80
Japan
EOS (1)
1986
Developed by ETA Systems for use in their ETA-10 line of supercomputers. Written in Cybil.
ETA-10
ETA System, USA
Cronus distributed OS
1986
Object-oriented distributed computing system for heterogenous environments.
-
-
-
CTRON
1986
Central and Communication TRON. Mainframe computers and telecommunications TRON.
-
NTT, Japan
FlexOS 68K
1986
Derivative of Concurrent DOS 68K.
Motorola 68000
-
DMS (3)
1986
Disk Management System.
-
AT&T, USA
-
NSMOS
1980s
Version of MOSIX for National Semiconductor VR32 systems.
National Semiconductor VR32
USA
-
Galaxy
1980s
Distributed UNIX-compatible system featuring multi-level IPC and variable-weight processes.
-
University of Tokyo, Japan
-
LANstatic (6 versions)
1987
Peer-to-peer local area network (LAN) operating system for DOS, Microsoft Windows and OS/2. LANtastic supports Ethernet, ARCNET and Token Ring adapters.
-
Artisoft, USA
Oberon (7 versions)
1987
Modular, single-user, single-process, multitasking operating system written in the programming language of the same name. Written in Oberon by Niklaus Wirth.
Ceres and Chameleon workstation projects
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Windows 2.0
1987
Second version of Microsoft Windows.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
HI-UX/M
1987
UNIX OS that ran on M series hardware. Hitachi developed HI-UX/M by transplanting IN/ix from INTERACTIVE Systems in the United States to the HITAC M series, and adding a number of new functions such as the 4.2 BSD function based on System V release 2 UNIX OS.
Hitachi HITAC M series
Hitachi, Japan
Xenix 386
1987
Xenix 386, Unix System V Release 2 based distribution for the Intel 80386 architecture.
i386
SCO Group, USA
OS-V
1987
Operating system for the V-7000 series of 32-bit-architecture multipurpose computers.
Toshiba V-7000 series
Toshiba, Japan
RISC OS (9 versions)
1987
Originally released in 1987 as Arthur 1.20. First release was to be called Arthur 2, but was renamed to RISC OS 2, and was first sold as RISC OS 2.00 in April 1989.
ARM
Acorn Computers, Castle Technology, RISCOS, UK
OS/2 (1) (12 versions)
1987
Series of computer operating systems, initially created by Microsoft and IBM under the leadership of IBM software designer Ed Iacobucci.
IBM PC compatibles
IBM, Microsoft, USA
VM/XA
1987
VM/eXtended Architecture for System/370 with extended virtual memory.
IBM System/370
IBM, USA
System/88 Operating System
1987
IBM version of Stratus/32 OS.
IBM System/88
IBM, Stratus Computer, USA
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IRIX
1987
Operating system developed by SGI to run on their MIPS workstations and servers.
SGI MIPS workstations
Silicon Graphics, USA
ITOS-VX
1987
Versatile Extended operating system for NEC System 3100A.
NEC System 3100A
NEC, Japan
MINIX (7 versions)
1987
POSIX-compliant (since version 2.0), Unix-like operating system based on a microkernel architecture.
IBM PC compatibles, PS/2, 68000, SPARC, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh, SPARCstation, ARM, Inmos transputer, Intel Management Engine
-
PC-MOS/386
1987
DOS-like, but multiuser/multitasking.
x86
The Software Link, USA
VxWorks
1987
Small footprint, scalable, high-performance RTOS for embedded microprocessor based systems.
x86, x86-64, MIPS, PowerPC, SH-4, ARM
Wind River Systems, USA
L3
1988
Family of second-generation microkernels, generally used to implement Unix-like operating systems, but also used in a variety of other systems.
i386
Jochen Liedtke, Germany
-
A/ROSE
1988
Small embedded operating system that runs on Apple Computer's "Macintosh Coprocessor Platform", an expansion card for the Apple Macintosh.
Apple Macintosh
Apple, USA
A/UX
1988
UNIX System V with BSD extensions. Last version in 1996.
Apple Macintosh
Apple, USA
-
Pink
1988
Code-name for Taligent OS.
Apple Macintosh
Apple, USA
OEM DR-DOS
1988
See DR-DOS.
-
USA
-
DR-DOS (6 versions)
1988
Single-user, single-tasking native DOS derived from Concurrent DOS 6.0.
x86
Digital Research, Caldera, Devicelogics, USA
AIX/370
1988
IBM's fourth attempt to offer Unix-like functionality for their mainframe line.
IBM System/370
Locus Computing, USA
HeliOS (2)
1988
Discontinued Unix-like operating system for parallel computers.
Transputer based systems
Perihelion Software, UK
DUNIX
1988c
Distributed version of UNIX.
-
Bell Labs, USA
-
IBM i
1988
Operating system that runs on IBM Power Systems and on IBM PureSystems. It was named OS/400 when it was introduced with the AS/400 line of computer systems in 1988, was later renamed to i5/OS, and was renamed to IBM i in 2008.
IBM Power Systems, IBM PureSystems
IBM, USA
LynxOS
1988
Unix-like real-time operating system from Lynx Software Technologies (formerly "LynuxWorks"). Sometimes known as the Lynx Operating System, LynxOS features full POSIX conformance and, more recently, Linux compatibility.
Motorola 68010, x86/IA-32, ARM, Freescale PowerPC, PowerPC 970, SPARC LEON
-
SpartaDOS X
1988
Aka SpartaDOS 4.0. Disk operating system for the Atari 8-bit family of computers that closely resembles MS-DOS.
Atari 8-bit family
ICD, Fine Tooned Engineering, USA
RISC iX
1988
Discontinued Unix operating system designed to run on the Acorn Archimedes. Derived from BSD 4.3, by Acorn computers, for their ARM family of machines.
Acorn Archimedes
Acorn Computers, UK
VAX VMM
1988
Virtual-machine monitor. TCSEC A1-class, VMM for VAX computers.
DEC VAX
DEC, USA
-
AS/400
1988
Application System/400. Originally named OS/400.
IBM AS/400
IBM, USA
OS/400 (4 versions)
1988
Descendant of System/38 CPF, include System/36 SSP environment.
IBM System/400
IBM, USA
-
HELIOS (1)
1988
OS developed in Romania for the Felix computers. Probably the the first major OS fully developped in Eastern Europe.
Felix C-256, C-512/1024
Romania
-
VM/XA SP
1988
Virtual Machine/Extended Architecture System Product.
IBM System/370
IBM, USA
-
Flex machine
1988
Tagged, capability machine with OS and other software written in ALGOL 68RS.
-
Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Malvern, UK
-
VOSK
1988
Small/medium OS for M-620, M-630 and M-640.
Hitachi HITAC M-620, M-630 and M-640
Hitachi, Japan
NeXTSTEP
1988
Unix-based OS based on the Mach microkernel.
NeXT
NeXT, USA
KeyKOS
1988
Capability-based microkernel for IBM mainframes with automated persistence of app data. The development of KeyKOS started under the name GNOSIS during the 1970s.
IBM System/370
Tymshare, Key Logic, USA
SCO OpenServer
1989
Aka Xinuos OpenServer, previously SCO UNIX and SCO Open Desktop (SCO ODT), is a closed source computer operating system developed by Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), later acquired by SCO Group, and now owned by Xinuos.
-
SCO Group, USA
SCO UNIX (1 versions)
1989
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 Group, USA
TSX-32
1989
General purpose 32-bit multi-user multitasking operating system for x86 architecture platform, with a command line user interface. It is compatible with some 16-bit DOS applications and supports file systems FAT16 and FAT32.
x86
S&H Computer Systems, USA
SOS (4)
1989c
SOMIW Operating System. Object-oriented operating system implemented on top of UNIX.
-
INRIA, France
MSP (2)
1989
Maintenance and Support Program. Successor to OS-IV, now MSP/EX also known as Extended System Architecture (EXA), for 31-bit mode.
Fujitsu mainframes
Fujitsu, Japan
EPOC (2 versions)
1989
Mobile operating system developed by Psion. It began as a 16-bit operating system for Psion's own x86-compatible devices, and was later replaced by a 32-bit system for x86 and ARM.
Psion
Psion, UK
OS-9000
1989
Unix-like RTOS. (OS from Microware for Intel x86 based microcomputers; based on OS-9, written in C).
Intel 80386 PC
Microware Systems, USA
-
ROM-DOS
1989
Sometimes called Datalight DOS.
-
Datalight, USA
ASOS
1989
Army Secure Operating System. TCSEC A1-class secure, real-time OS for Ada applications.
-
US Army, USA
OSIV/MSP (2 versions)
1989
Super-large general-purpose operating system.
Fujitsu FACOM M-1800
Fujitsu, Japan
DIP DOS
1989
Operating system for the Atari Portfolio.
Atari Portfolio
DIP, Canada
-
DISTRIX
1989
Message-based distributed version of Unix.
-
University of Cape Town, USA
-
Kuo Chia
1990s
IBM PC compatible traditional Chinese operating system running on DOS.
IBM PC compatibles
China/Taiwan
-
FunOS
1990s
Mostly-functional OS, written in Scheme.
-
Dave Mason, Canada
NOW
1990s
Berkeley Network of Workstations. OS allowing inexpensive workstations to work in cluster, harnessing their resources to match a large computer.
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U.C. Berkeley, USA
SAN-OS
1990s
Now NX-OS.
-
Cisco Systems, USA
-
PETROS
1990s
Microsoft Windows clone programmed in a proprietary Object Pascal, by Trumpet Software International (producer of the famous Trumpet Winsock). 32-bit operating system for the PC platform.
IBM PC compatibles
Trumpet Software, Tasmania
Schema
1990s
Operating system and operating environment written in Scheme atop a virtual machine which provides an abstraction layer between the hardware and the operating system, implying ease of porting between widely varying processors and other hardware.
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LahNOS
1990s
Local area heterogeneous network operating system.
-
Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Spain
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NTDIOS
1990s
Network Disk Operating System. Working 32-bit, multitasking, OS for x86-based computers, running in protected mode.
x86
NTDIOS, France
schemix
1990s
Implementation of (a subset of) Scheme that runs inside the Linux Kernel OS, so you can dynamically debug your device-drivers.
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-
SCIOPTA
1990s
Pre-emptive, priority-based direct message passing real-time kernel.
ARM, Cortex-M0-M3-M4, Cortex-R4, Cortex-A5, Cortex-A7, Cortex-A9, Cortex-A53, XScale, Renesas RX100, RX200, RX600, RX700, PowerPC, ColdFire, HCS12, M16C, Aurix TC2xx, BlackFin BF52x, BF70x
Sciopta Systems, Switzerland
Towns OS
1990s
Graphical OS called Towns OS, based on MS-DOS and the Phar Lap DOS extender.
Fujitsu FM Towns
Fujitsu, Japan
ML/OS
1990s
Experimental OS kernel, developed in the context of The Express project, constructed by porting the SML/NJ implementation of Standard ML to run on a bare PC through the OSKit library for the low-level machine management.
-
Olin Shivers, USA
-
SCO Open Desktop
1990s
The first 32-bit graphical user interface for UNIX Systems running on Intel processor-based computers. Based on SCO Unix.
-
Samsung Electronics, Korea
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PicoBSD
1990s
One floppy version of FreeBSD, configured mainly for networking applications. Superseded by NanoBSD.
x86
Michael Bialecki, Poland
O/OS
1990s
O/OS [MIA] introduces a new GUI concept, and aims at architecturing the OS around reusable, replacable components.
-
Frank Kudermann, Germany
Möbius
1990s
Small 32-bit operating system for Intel i386 processors and above, running in protected mode. In its current state it comprises a small kernel (some might call it a microkernel), a set of drivers for basic PC hardware and a couple of applications. It is called The Möbius because it is hard to type*.
i386
Tim Robinson, UK
Geex!
1990s
Free OS, where the philosophy is to make an OS with a very small footprint, working on old computers.
-
Fabricio Rocha, Brazil
BugOS
1990s
The command line functionality is reminiscent of DOS.
i80386+, MIPS, PPC
Hungary
Ocelot
1990s
Project to create a public-licensed implementation of an operating system similar to UNIX.
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-
Scout
1990s
Operating system specifically aimed at network appliances (webcams, ip routers).
Digital Alpha and Intel Pentium
University of Arizona, USA
Off (1 versions)
1990s
Distributed microkernel OS that transparently migrate light-weight processes ("shuttles") over the network, communicating by distributed IPC ("Portals"), in a one global distributed shared memory space.
-
University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Cache Kernel
1990s
Privileged-mode portion of V++, a scalable multiprocessor OS.
-
Kenneth Duda, USA
Platform OS
1990s
Operating system wanted to achieve platform-independence through a low-level VM.
-
-
OJOS
1990s
Original J Operating System, aka Platypus.
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-
OKE
1990s
Open Kernel Environment. Extension to the Linux OS which allows users other than root to load native and fully optimised code in the kernel.
-
Leiden University, Netherlands
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ScreenOS (4 versions)
1990s
Real-time embedded operating system for the NetScreen range of hardware firewall devices from Juniper Networks.
NetScreen
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Windows 3.0
1990
Second version of Microsoft Windows including a significantly revamped user interface as well as technical improvements to make better use of the memory management capabilities of Intel's 80286 and 80386 processors.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
Opal
1990s
Yet another distributed single (wide) address space (SAS) OS with page-level protection, implemented on top of Mach on Alphas.
-
Hank Levy, Ed Lazowska, Jeff Chase, Mike Feeley, USA
SEIUX
1990s
Mostly a clone of the RISC/os.
Sumistation
Sumitomo Electric, Japan
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ShagOS
1990s
Object Oriented system based on a message passing kernel.
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-
ShawnOS
1990s
Small OS, written in 3 months entirely in assembly, that is functional enough to run programs.
-
-
Turbo-DOS
1990s
One of the primitive operating systems for BK-0010 and BK-0010-01, ideologically close to KMON . File system is not compatible with anything.
Elektronika BK-0010
Russia
GEOS-E
1990s
Based on EDEN OS from Eden Group.
-
GeoWorks, USA
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SilkOS
1990s
Lisp environment atop Unix .
-
-
Charm
1990s
Nano-kernel OS aimed at the support of Orthogonal Persistence.
-
-
-
Simulink Real-Time
1990s
Formerly known as xPC Target. Environment for simulating and testing Simulink and Stateflow models in real-time on the physical system.
x86
MathWorks, USA
Agnix
1990s
Small OS kernel for i386, supporting 32-bit protected memory mode, paging, hardware switched tasks, memory tests (RW, ECC, address patterns), PCI bus, devices, PCI IRQ routing, RT timers and network protocols.
i386
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Puma
1990s
Operating system at Sandia National Laboratories with a distributed memory architectures.
-
Sandia National Laboratories, USA
GNU Hurd
1990
GNU project's replacement for the Unix OS kernel.
IA-32, i686
-
GNUStep
1990s
Unix-like OS, a project to implement a free clone of NeXTStep.
-
-
CircCLe
1990s
Free Common Lisp development and deployment platform for Linux-based GNU systems.
-
-
GO!
1990s
Operaing system based on the idea of building an entire Operating System from software components (based on CORBA and its ORB) that can be replaced and recycled; it also introduces an x86-specific security model based on segmentation and code scanning (an example of a no-kernel system).
-
Greg Law, USA
Cisco IOS
1990s
Originally Internetwork Operating System. Family of software used on most Cisco Systems routers and current Cisco network switches.
-
Cisco Systems, USA
GOS/EA
1990
Operating system for EX860II, EX870II and EX880II general-purpose computers.
Mitsubishi EX860II, EX870II and EX880II
Mitsubishi, Japan
QuickOS
1990s
Really-quick-realtime-multitasking OS.
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-
AO-DOS
1990s
Disk operating system.
Elektronika BK-0010
Russia
RAMON
1990s
Embedded operating system for Soviet personal computers BK-0010 and BK-0010-01. The file system used is compatible with the RT-11 file system.
Elektronika BK-0010
Alexander Ermakov, Russia
Alliance OS
1990s
Was a split from Freedows, its goal was to implement an OS based on isolated components, described with the Corba IDL and communicating through a System ORB.
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-
AlliedWare Plus
1990s
Operating system developed by Allied Telesis, used on its high-end enterprise network switches.
Allied Telesis routers
Allied Telesis (a.k.a. Allied Telesyn), USA
Moscow
1990s
Object oriented operating system.
-
Julian R. Hall, UK
HC-DOS
1990s
Operating system for the Soviet personal computers BK-0010.
Elektronika BK-0010
Russia
Movitz
1990s
Common Lisp OS development platform.
x86
Frode V. Fjeld, Norway
SLK
1990s
Safe Language Kernel Project. OS infrastructure for extensible systems.
-
Cornell University, USA
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Amiga Unix (1 versions)
1990
Aka Amix. Amiga ports of Unix System V release 3.2 with Amiga A2500UX and SVR4 with Amiga A3000UX.
Commodore Amiga
Commodore-Amiga, Canada
SMS2
1990s
Derivative from QDOS running on Atari computers in monochrome mode (640x400). It does not get any BASIC interpreter. "SMS" should stand for Small Multitasking System or Small Machine System.
Atari 8-bit family
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Hello
1990s
Prototype OS in Standard ML.
-
University of Hawaii, USA
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SMSQ
1990s
Full re-write of QDOS. Developped from SMS2 for the Miracle systems' QXL card.
Sinclair QL
Tony Tebby, France
HelyOS
1990s
Adapted XOberon RTOS with the ARM board support package. Written in Oberon.
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ETHZ, Switzerland
-
SMSQ/E
1990s
Born from the fusion of SMSQ and of the level "E" (thus the name) device drivers first developped for the Atari QL emulator sold by Jochen Merz Software.
Sinclair QL
Tony Tebby, France
hOp
1990s
Microkernel OS based on the Run Time System (RTS) of GHC, an Haskell implementation.
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UK
House
1990s
Haskell User's Operating System and Environment, research OS written in Haskell and C.
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coniX
1990s
Small romable embedded operating system for ARM processors.
ARM
Nexus, USA
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ANDOS
1990
Russian operating system for Electronika BK-0010, Electronika BK-0011 and Electronika BK-0011M series computers.
Elektronika BK-0010
Alexey Nadezhin and Sergey Kamnev, Russia
OpenTV
1990s
Middlware for digital TV (NVoD, IPPV).
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LispOS
1990s
Project to revive the still unequalled systems that ran on Lisp Machines of the past (such as the still surviving Genera) this time making it free and running on standard/cheap hardware, instead of proprietary and requiring non-standard/expensive hardware.
Lisp Machines
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Lites
1990s
Unix-like OS of the BSD family as a "singleserver" over the Mach microkernel.
i386, MIPS, and Alpha
Johannes Helander, Finland
OpenZaurus
1990s
Defunct embedded operating system for the Sharp Zaurus personal mobile tool PDA.
ARM, Sharp Zaurus
Sharp, Japan
LittleOS
1990s
Small OS experiment being developed by a group of individuals.
-
Pascal Lacroix, Nicolas Regis-Constant, France
LOS
1990s
MIA LOS was meant to be another OS for gamers, like EOS.
-
Jonas Berlin, Finland
Unique OS
1995>
Pretty standard, kernel based OS.
-
Michael Gerhards, Germany
-
Space
1990s
Approach to operating systems which uses multiple protection domains rather than a single kernel to provide operating system services.
-
University of Santa Barbara, USA
M/XA ESA
1990
Virtual Machine/Enterprise Systems Architecture.
IBM System/370
IBM, USA
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Spoon
1990s
Operating system based on a microkernel.
-
South Africa
Xen
1990s
Virtualisation kernel to which Linux has been ported, NetBSD and XP are being ported, such that you can run as many of each of these OSs (and others if they are ported or written) on a single box.
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University of Cambridge, UK
OS BK-11
1990s
The only “official†OS for the BK-0010/11 computers, supported by the manufacturer, and included in the delivery of the computer.
Elektronika BK-0010
Russia
Sprite
1990s
Distributed operating system that provides a single system image to a cluster of workstations.
DECstation 5000/200 or a SparcStation 2
U.C. Berkeley, USA
Iguana
1990s
Obect oriented, reflexive OS supporting MOPs, distribution, and runtime reconfiguration in order to meet changes in non-functional requirements (ie. dynamic customisation).
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Dublin Trinity College, Ireland
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Ångström distribution
1990s
Linux distribution for a variety of embedded devices. The distribution is the result of work by developers from the OpenZaurus, OpenEmbedded, and OpenSIMpad projects.
ARM
-
ENOS (1)
1990s
ESnet’s Network Operating System. Prototype next-generation architecture for handling data-intensive science workflows.
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Esnet, USA
Xoberon
1990s
Hard real-time operating system (HRTOS), deployed for high-end mechatronic products control. The goal of XOberon is about providing a framework for non-computer-scientists, looking for a rapid application development (RAD) tool for programming embedded applications.
Motorola MVME162, PowerPC
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Xok
1990s
Newest research exokernel to date. XOK is able to compile most UNIX programs (perl, gcc, emacs, etc.) with little or no change, and has equal to or greater speed than FreeBSD when using standard libOS's.
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MIT, USA
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Stella
1990s
Real time operating system. It runs on 680x0 processors and may be adapted to ColdFire processors. Although designed for embeded systems, it could be easily extended to run on any computer system.
68000
Tony Tebby, France
Retro
1990s
FORTH-based OS and a prototype low-level infrastructure for the TUNES project.
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XO/2
1990s
Industrial RTOS based on Oberon. Object-oriented, hard-real time system software and framework, designed for safety, extensibility and abstraction.
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ETH Zurich, Switzerland
EP/IX
1990s
Enhanced Performance Unix. CDC implementation of Unix for the Control Data 4000 series of computers.
Control Data 4000 series
Control Data, USA
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ES/os
1990s
Variant of RISC/os 4.52 with extra device drivers, a few bug fixes, etc.
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Evans & Sutherland, USA
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Unununium
1990s
Aka Uuu, "operating engine" is "a highly componentized system, where each component can be dynamically loaded, unloaded, replaced at runtime.
x86
Dave Poirier, International
Argon
1990s
Operating system which dynamically compiles high-level languages to machine code as needed.
-
Alaric B. Snell, UK
u-velOSity
1990s
Family of real-time operating systems.
ARM Cortex, MPC
Green Hills Software, USA
V2_OS
1990s
Operating system focused on speed for projects like real-time video serving, etc.
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V2 Lab, Netherlands
Vapour
1990s
Project to build out a Lisp-based OS based on a persistent object store and has quite a few other interesting principles.
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Australia
SUPER-UX
1990s
Port of System V Release 4.2MP with features adopted from BSD and Linux for NEC SX architecture supercomputers.
NEC SX supercomputers
USA
Zot OS
1990s
Small free OS with a GUI.
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rojan
1990s
Was SamOS. An OS with a virtual reality based UI.
-
Ramon van Handel, USA
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velOSity
1990s
Real-time operating system.
Power Architecture, ARM/XScale, MIPS, x86/Pentium, ColdFire, Blackfin, OMAP, DaVinci
Green Hills Software, USA
Exokernel
1990s
Operating System Architecture for Application-Level Resource Management. A OS project from MIT.
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MIT, USA
RouterOS
1990s
Operating system of MikroTik RouterBOARD hardware based on Linux kernel.
RouterBOARD
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Atari MultiTOS
1990s
Multitasking version of TOS. Predecessor of MiNT.
16-bit Atari computers
Atari, USA
OS/A WASP
1990s
Operating system for the Soviet personal computers BK-0010.
Elektronika BK-0010, BK-0011
Russia
Datapac Multiuser DOS
1990s
DataPac version of Multiuser DOS.
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DataPac Australasia, Australia
Fabric OS
1990s
Firmware for Brocade Communications Systems's Fibre Channel switches and Fibre Channel directors. It is also known as FOS and Fabos.
Brocade Silkworm 2000 and first 3000 series
Brocade Communications Systems, USA
DC/Osx
1990s
DataCenter/OSx for Pyramid's MIPS-based systems. Was the first symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) implementation on Unix System V Release 4. DC/OSx was superseded by the SINIX operating system.
Pyramid
Pyramid Technology, USA
VM/ESA
1990
Virtual Machine / Extended System Architecture, added 31-bit addressing to VM series.
IBM System/370
IBM, USA
DC/UX
1990s
Operating system for Omron workstations.
Omron LUNA
Japan
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SwarmOS
1990s
Pretty standard, kernel based OS, but that actually boots and works to some extent.
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AVM/EX
1990
Advanced Virtual Machine/Extended Architecture.
Fujitsu FACOM M-770, M-780 M-1800, VP1000, VP2000
Fujitsu, Japan
A-VX (3 versions)
1990
Advanced Versatile Extended. Operating system.
NEC System 3100/7100/7200, NEC Express 5800series
NEC, Japan
OS161
1990s
Instructional OS produced for an undergraduate introductory operating system concepts at Harvard, by the same group of VINO. Mainly inspired to BSD Unix.
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Harvard University, USA
MDX
1990s
Distributed Operating system.
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USA
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MZScheme
1990s
Implementation of the Scheme programming language for Windows 95/98/NT, MacOS, Unix, and BeOS. Available in kernel form for x86 machines, which allows MzScheme to boot without the aid of a separate operating system.
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Rice University, USA
Synthesis
1990s
The first of the modern OS that dynamically generated code at runtime. Although it was written in MC68000 assembly, it opened the path to projects like Aegis and Synthetix.
Synapse N+1 system
Henry Massalin, USA
Synthetix
1990s
OGI's Synthetix project of fine-grained incremental partial evaluation in OS kernels, using a combination of highly isolated system components, and dynamic code generation. Sponsored by ARPA, Intel, and Hewlett-Packard.
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OGI School of Science and Engineering, USA
NASOS
1990s
Not Another Scheme OS.
-
John Kozak, UK
IronWare OS
1990s
Operating system for Fundry switches.
Fundry switches
Foundry Networks, USA
Taligent
1990s
Object-oriented operating system. Initially started as a project within Apple to provide a replacement for the classic Mac OS, it was later spun off into a joint venture with IBM as part of the AIM alliance, with the purpose of building a competing platform to Microsoft Cairo and NeXTSTEP. Replaced by Copland and IBM CommonPoint.
Apple Macintosh
Apple, USA
NCOS (2)
1990s
Graphical user interface-based operating system developed for use in Oracle's Network Computers.
Oracle Network computers
Acorn Computers, UK
OSE
1990s
Operating System Embedded (known by the acronym Enea OSE). Real-time embedded operating system.
ARM, PowerPC, MIPS
ENEA, Sweden
BASIS
1990s
Operating system for the Soviet personal computers BK-0010.
Elektronika BK-0010
Russia
iS-DOS
1990
Disk operating system for Russian ZX Spectrum clones.
ZX spectrum
Iskra Soft, Russia
Merlin (2)
1990s
Project of a Self-based OS.
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Jecel Mattos de Assumpcao Jr, Brazil
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MetaOS
1990s
Object-oriented system model.
-
University of Victoria, Canada
Tao OS
1990s
Now called Elate.
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TASIS
1990s
Modern version of IS-DOS.
ATM Turbo 2+
NedoPC, Russia
ITRON
1990s
Industrial TRON. An architecture for real-time operating systems for embedded systems.
ARM, MIPS, x86, Renesas RX100-200-600-700-others
ITRON Project, University of Tokyo, Japan
OSIV/XSP
1990
Successor operating system to Fujitsu’s two OSs: medium-scale general-purpose OS OSIV/ESPIII, and large-scale general-purpose OS OSIV/X8 FSP.
Fujitsu FACOM M series
Fujitsu, Japan
BeIA
1990s
BeOS for Internet Appliances. Was a minimized version of BeOS operating system for embedded systems.
IA-32
Be, USA
OSKit
1990s
Complete modular infrastructure that provides all the "bricks" (resources) needed to easily build an OS, focusing on what interests you, and reusing components for the rest.
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University of Utah, USA
OZONE
1990s
Object-oriented OS primarily based on VMS with the use of the GNU toolchain, and Unix-style pipes (also using record-oriented pipes, a VMS feature called a "mailbox").
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Ozone Enterprises, USA
JeniOS
1990s
MIA JeniOS is a project of an OS usable by anyone.
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rtmk
1990s
Free real-time microkernel OS sharing alot of ideas with Mach.
-
Johan Rydberg, Sweden
Tigger
1990s
Project to develop an OS and framework for the construction of a family of distributed object-oriented platforms.
-
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Milan
1990s
Operating system for the Atari ST.
Atari ST
Milan Computersys., Germany
Milan MultiOS
1990s
Multitasking-capable operating system for the Atari ST.
Atari ST
Milan Computersys., Germany
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TINOS
1990s
Small, multipurpose OS that could be used as a learning tool for the author and anyone else that cared to use it.
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JOS
1990s
Free, open OS based on the Java technology, Free clone of JavaOS.
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PascalDOS
1990s
Operating system for Soviet personal computers BK-0010 and BK-0010-01, intended for programming in the Pascal programming language.
Elektronika BK-0010
Russia
TiMOS
1990s
Used in routers from Alcatel-Lucent.
Alcatel-Lucent routers
Alcatel-Lucent, France
MINERVA
1990s
First true major re-write of QDOS.
Sinclair QL
Laurence Reeves, UK
Blue
1990s
Code-name for Taligent OS, successor of Pink.
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Apple, USA
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NitrOS-9
1990s
Basically a reconstruction of OS-9 for the 6809 Tandy CoCo3, but refined for the Hitachi 6309 compatible CPU.
Tandy Coco 3
Bill Nobel, Canada
NORD
1990s
Disk operating system.
Elektronika BK-0010
Russia
PC/GEOS
1990
See GeoWorks.
IBM PC compatibles
Berkeley Softworks, USA
NORTON-BK
1990s
Simplest operating system for the Soviet personal computers BK-0010.
Elektronika BK-0010
Russia
Dolphin
1990s
Robust, reliable, fast multi-tasking operating system. Highly configurable to the user's needs.
IBM PC compatibles
Samuel A. Falvo II, Portugal
VSTa
1990s
Valencia's Simple Tasker. Was an operating system with a microkernel architecture, with all device drivers and file systems residing in userspace mode.
i386, Motorola 68030
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KnowOS
1990s
Knowledge Operating System. Project for a dynamic system with persistent objects.
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RxDOS
1990s
Commercial DOS clone as described and available in the author's book "Dissecting DOS".
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Topsy
1990s
Eucational OS. It is a small multi-threaded message-based microkernel written in ANSI C and running on a R3000 simulator written in Java.
-
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Pegasus (1 versions)
1990s
Operating system support for distributed interactive multimedia.
-
University of Twente, University of Cambridge, UK
PenPoint OS
1991
Product of GO Corporation and was one of the earliest operating systems written specifically for graphical tablets and personal digital assistants.
Tablets, PDA
GO, USA
Linux (76 versions)
1991
See also List of Linux distributions. Alleged to be GNU/Linux see GNU/Linux naming controversy.
Alpha, ARC, ARM, C6x, H8/300, Hexagon, Itanium, m68k, Microblaze, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, OpenRISC, PA-RISC, PowerPC, RISC-V, s390, SuperH, SPARC, Unicore32, x86, Xtensa
Linus Torvalds, Finland
GNO/ME
1991
GNO Multitasking Environment. Unix-like operating system for the Apple IIGS computer.
Apple IIGS
Procyon Enterprises, Devin Reade, USA
Clouds
1991<
Distributed object-based operating system.
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Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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AIX/ESA
1991
Replacement of sys AIX/370 which was based on OSF/1.
IBM System/390
IBM, USA
Amoeba
1991
Microkernel OS with multiple servers, allowing parallel (transparent to the user) execution, resource sharing, and more; the reference among distributed Oses. Based partly on UNIX.
Commodore Amiga
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MQX
1991
Message Queue eXecutive. Real-time operating system developed by Precise Software Technologies Inc., and currently sold by Synopsys, Embedded Access Inc, and Freescale.
Freescale Power, ColdFire, Kinetis Cortex ARM, List of Freescale products
Precise Software Technologies, USA
OpenVMS (5 versions)
1991
Multi-user, multiprocessing virtual memory-based operating system (OS) designed for use in time-sharing, batch processing, and transaction processing.
DEC VAX, Alpha, Itanium
DEC, USA
Workplace OS
1991
Microkernel based operating system including OS/2, developed and canceled in the 1990s.
IA-32, PowerPC, ARM
IBM, USA
EROS
1991
Extremely Reliable Operating System. Microkernel, capability-based. As of 2005, development has stopped in favor of two successor systems, CapROS and Coyotos.
IA-32
EROS Group, LLC, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania, USA
MicroC/OS (2 versions)
1991
Micro-Controller Operating Systems. Small pre-emptive priority based multi-tasking kernel.
ARM7-9-11/Cortex-M1-3-4-A8/9, AVR, HC11/12/S12, 8051, x86, Win32, H8S, M16C, M32C, MIPS, 68000, PIC24-dsPIC33-PIC32, MSP430, PowerPC, SH, StarCore, Renesas RX100-200-600-700, RL; STM32
Micrium, USA
BeOS (1 versions)
1991
Operating system for personal computers first developed by Be Inc. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware.
IA-32, PowerPC
Be, USA
VSE/ESA
1991
DOS/VSE extended virtual memory support to 32-bit addresses (Extended System Architecture).
IBM mainframes
IBM, USA
Novell DOS (1 versions)
1991
Single-user, multi-tasking system derived from DR DOS.
IBM PC compatibles
Digital Research, USA
PEN/GEOS
1992
Graphical user interface based on PC/GEOS.
HP OmniGo 100 and 120, Nokia Communicator, Casio Z-7000
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MK-DOS
1992
Was one of the most widespread operating systems for Elektronika BK personal computers.
Elektronika BK-0010
Mikhail Korolev, Dmitriy Butyrskiy, Russia
386BSD 0.1
1992
Sometimes called "Jolix". Discontinued free Unix-like operating system.
x86
William Jolitz, Lynne Jolitz, USA
LGX
1992
Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X. Early Linux distribution.
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Yggdrasil Computing, USA
Plan 9 (3 versions)
1992
Distributed OS based on original Unix design principles yet functionally different and going much further.
-
Bell Labs, USA
Windows 3.1
1992
Same as Windows 3.0 except required a minimum of a 286 PC with 1 MB of RAM to run, removed CGA support, TrueType font support, Ehanced Mode support.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
CCI Multiuser DOS
1992
Real-time multi-user multi-tasking operating system.
IBM PC compatibles
Concurrent Controls, USA
Grasshopper
1992c
Distributed OS with Orthogonal Persistence.
-
Universities of Sydney and Adelaide, Australia
Windows for Workgroups (2 versions)
1992
Extension that allowed users to share their resources and to request those of others without a centralized authentication server. Originally codenamed Winball and later Sparta.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
Softlanding Linux System (SLS)
1992
One of the first Linux distributions.
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Peter MacDonald, Canada
Solaris (20 versions)
1992
System V-based replacement for SunOS.
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Sun Microsystems, USA
uKOS
1992
Multi-tasking OS suitable for small embedded µController systems.
Cortex-M3-M4-M7-H7, 6833x, PIC, CSEM icyflex-1, STM32
Edo Franzi, Switzerland
IMS Multiuser DOS (3 versions)
1992
Multiuser DOS developped by IMS.
IBM PC compatibles
Digital Research, Intelligent Micro Software, USA
Sting
1992c
Experimental operating system designed to serve as an efficient customizable substrate for modern programming languages.
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Apertos
1992c
Reflexive Object Oriented OS.
Sony NEWS workstations, Intel 486
Sony, Japan
XTS-200
1992
Designed as a general-purpose operating system supporting a Unix-like application and user environment.
x86
BAE Systems, UK
UnixWare (2 versions)
1992
Unix operating system. It was originally released by Univel, a jointly owned venture of AT&T's Unix System Laboratories (USL) and Novell.
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Univel, Novell, SCO, Caldera Systems, Caldera International, The SCO Group, Xinuos, USA
Data ONTAP
1992
ONTAP or Data ONTAP or Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT) or Data ONTAP 7-Mode is NetApp's proprietary operating system used in storage disk arrays such as NetApp FAS and AFF (also known as NetApp Filer), ONTAP Select and Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
IA-32, Alpha, MIPS, x86-64 with ONTAP 8 and higher
NetApp, USA
NachOS
1992
Not Another Completely Heuristic Operating System. Instructional software for teaching undergraduate, and potentially graduate, level operating systems courses.
DEC MIPS, SUN SPARCstations, HP PA-RISC
U.C. Berkeley, USA
OSF/1
1992
Developed into a commercial offering by DEC.
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DEC, USA
PalmDOS
1992
Very resource-light DR DOS 6.0 derivative aimed at the emerging Palmtop/PDA market.
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Digital Research, USA
Novell "Star Trek"
1992
Code name that was given to a secret prototype project, running a port of Mac OS 7 and its applications on Intel-compatible x86 personal computers.
x86
Digital Research, USA
L4
1993
Family of second-generation microkernels, generally used to implement Unix-like operating systems, but also used in a variety of other systems.
i386
Jochen Liedtke, Germany
Toshiba 4690 OS
1993
POS operating system based on IBM 4690 OS and FlexOS.
POS terminal devices
Digital Research, USA
Nucleus RTOS
1993
Real-time operating system (RTOS) supporting 32 and 64 bit embedded platforms. The Nucleus RTOS is designed for real-time embedded systems for use in medical, industrial, consumer, aerospace, and IoT applications.
ARM (Cortex-M3-M4-R4-R4F-A8-A9, ARM7-9-11), PowerPC, MIPS32-16e, microMIPS, ColdFire, SuperH
Mentor Graphics, USA
DOSB10
1993c
Disk operating system. The command line language is also similar to RT-11.
Elektronika BK-0010
A. I. Vinnichenko, Russia
Windows 3.11
1993
Improved version of Windows 3.1.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
Windows 3.2
1993
Chinese-only release of Windows 3.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
CatOS
1993
Catalyst Operating System. Discontinued operating system for many of the Catalyst brand of legacy network switches. It was originally called XDI by the switching company Crescendo Communications, Inc. Cisco renamed it to CatOS when they acquired Crescendo in late 1993.
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Cisco Systems, USA
PTS-DOS (1 versions)
1993
MS DOS clone.
IBM PC compatibles
Phystechsoft, Russia
Choices
1993<
Object-oriented operating system.
-
University of Illinois, U. of Idaho ?, USA
Slackware (10 versions)
1993
Linux distribution.
IA-32, x86-64, ARM
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Windows NT (4 versions)
1993
Full 32-bit or 64-bit kernel, not dependent on MS-DOS. Part of Windows Server Family.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
IBM 4690 OS (1 versions)
1993
POS operating system based on FlexOS.
IBM 4690, i286, i386
Digital Research, USA
LUnix
1993
Aka LNG. Operating system primarly for the good old Commodore64 home-computer. There also is a native version for the successor Commodore 128.
Commodore 64
Daniel Dallman, Germany
Spring
1993
Distributed multiplatform OS. Not related to the Spring Kernel, a real-time system.
Sun workstation
Sun Microsystems, USA
Apple MessagePad
1993
Operating system for Apple MessagePad.
Apple MessagePad
Apple, USA
Debian (9 versions)
1993
Unix-like operating system composed entirely of free software packaged by a team of volunteers.
amd64, ia64, i386, arm64, armel, armhf, mipsel, ppc64, IBM S/390x, z/Architecture, RISC-V
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OSEK
1993
Offene Systeme und deren Schnittstellen für die Elektronik in Kraftfahrzeugen. Standards body that has produced specifications for an embedded operating system, a communications stack, and a network management protocol for automotive embedded systems
Engine control units
Germany
NetBSD (12 versions)
1993
Unix-like OS of the BSD family which focuses on portability and networking and supports tens of platforms.
Alpha, ARM, PA-RISC, 68k, MIPS, PowerPC, SH3, SPARC, RISC-V, VAX, x86
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RTEMS
1993
Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems. Formerly Real-Time Executive for Missile Systems, and then Real-Time Executive for Military Systems. Real-time operating system designed for embedded systems.
ARM, Blackfin, ColdFire, TI C3x/C4x, H8/300, x86, 68k, LatticeMico32, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC, SuperH, SPARC, ERC32, LEON, Mongoose-V
OAR, USA
FreeBSD (13 versions)
1993
One of the outgrowths of UC Regents' abandonment of CSRG's 'BSD Unix.
ARM, IA-32, x86-64, MIPS, PowerPC, 64-bit SPARC, RISC-V
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Newton OS
1993
Discontinued operating system for the Apple Newton PDAs.
Apple MessagePad
Apple, USA
MiNT
1993
free software alternative operating system kernel for the Atari ST system and its successors.
16-bit Atari computers
Atari, USA
Novell "Corsair"
1993
User interface for NetWare, was a project run by Novell corporation's Advanced Technology Group (ATG).
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Novell, USA
DP-UX
1994
Operating system for RX7000 series of Solutions Servers.
Mitsubishi RX7000
Mitusbishi, Japan
HetNOS
1994c
Set of software layers laid over "native" operating systems to provide a distributed programming platform.
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USA
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OpenStep
1994
Object-oriented application programming interface (API) specification for a legacy object-oriented operating system, with the basic goal of offering a NeXTSTEP-like environment on a non-NeXTSTEP operating system.
IA-32, PA-RISC, SPARC
NeXT, Sun Microsystems, USA
Convergent Technologies Operating System (CTOS)
1994
Also known variously as CTOS, BTOS and STARSYS, was a modular, message-passing, multiprocess-based operating system. Later acquired by Unisys.
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Convergent Technologies, USA
Copland
1994
Unreleased operating system prototype for Apple Macintosh computers of the late 1990s, intended to be released as the modern System 8 successor.
Apple Macintosh
Apple, USA
REAL/32
1994
Intelligent Micro Software (IMS) acquired a license to further develop Multiuser DOS from Novell in 1994 and renamed their product REAL/32.
i386
Intelligent Micro Software, UK
SPIN
1994
Extensible OS written in Modula-3.
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University of Washington, USA
Red Hat Linux (1 versions)
1994
Linux distribution.
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Red Hat, USA
XTS-300
1994
Transitioned from proprietary, mini-computer hardware to COTS, Intel x86 hardware.
x86
BAE Systems, UK
Arjuna
1994c
Object-oriented programming system, implemented entirely in C++, that provides a set of tools for the construction of fault-tolerant distributed applications.
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
SUSE Linux (7 versions)
1994
Linux distribution.
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SUSE, Germany
VINO
1994c
Operating system built of reusable, replacable components that can be organized by the end-user, even code running in kernel mode.
-
Harvard University, USA
Thix
1994
Deceased project of a Unix OS implementation written from scratch for the purpose of learning.
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Tudor Hulubei, USA
Novell "Exposé"
1994
Outsourcing project on a technology demo.
-
Novell, USA
BRiX
1995c
Based on modular functions that can be dynamically called by other functions.
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Trusted Solaris
1995
Solaris with kernel and other enhancements to support multilevel security.
Sun workstation
Sun Microsystems, USA
OpenBSD (35 versions)
1995
Forked from NetBSD. Unix-like OS of the BSD family, has split from NetBSD, and focuses on stability and security.
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Windows 95
1995
Aka Windows 4.0. Codename Chicago. Windows 95 merged Microsoft's formerly separate MS-DOS and Windows products, and featured significant improvements over its predecessor, most notably in the graphical user interface (GUI) and in its simplified "plug-and-play" features.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
IMS REAL/32 (1 versions)
1995
Derivative of Multiuser DOS.
IBM PC compatibles
Intelligent Micro Software, UK
OS/390
1995
Upgrade from MVS, with an additional Unix environment.
IBM System/390
IBM, USA
MB02
1995c
Disk operating system for the ZX Spectrum MB02 disk interface.
ZX Spectrum
MDV, Busysoft, Russia
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Digital UNIX
1995
Old name for Tru64 UNIX. Derived from OSF/1, became HP's Tru64 UNIX.
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DEC, USA
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Forth OS
1995c
No-kernel systems group of OS. See BootOS, colorForth, ZOG, SOL, ForthOS, Diesel, Aha, JPB Forth, herkforth, COLDFORTH, 4os, etc..
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VOSK/FS
1995
Replaced the department computer operating system VOSK, was developed as a mid-range total management server with the features of a database server, a computing server, and a management server.
Hitachi MP5600 / MP5400
Hitachi, Japan
RTX (1 versions)
1995
Line of real-time operating system (RTOS) extensions. They are a software extension or abstraction layer that converts Microsoft Windows operating system into a RTOS. It was the first Windows real-time solution on the market.
x86, x86-32
IntervalZero, USA
Novell "SuperNOS"
1995<
Never released merge of NetWare and UnixWare.
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Novell, USA
brickOS
1996c
Previously legOS. Alternative operating system for the Lego Mindstorms RCX Controller.
LEGO Mindstorms
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MkLinux
1996
Open source computer operating system started by the Open Software Foundation Research Institute and Apple Computer.
PowerPC
Apple, Open Software Foundation Research Institute, USA
Caldera DR-DOS (2 versions)
1996
DR DOS acquired by Caldera in 1996. See DR-DOS.
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Digital Research, USA
On Time RTOS-32
1996
Win32 API Compatible RTOS for 32/64-bit x86 Embedded Systems sucha as governor of steam turbines, motors controls.
x86
On Time Informatik, Germany
Windows CE (9 versions)
1996
Operating system for handhelds, embedded devices, and real-time applications that is similar to other versions of Windows.
x86, MIPS, ARM, SuperH
Microsoft, USA
Windows Embedded (15 versions)
1996
Released in 1999 as Windows NT Embedded 4.0. See IoT.
Embedded devices
Microsoft, USA
DSPnano
1996
RTOS 8/16 Bit Ultra Tiny Embedded Linux Compatible RTOS.
Microchip PIC microcontroller, Renesas M16C, ARM
RoweBots, USA
DX-DOS
1996c
Simplest operating system for the Soviet personal computers BK-0010. Very close to MS-DOS.
Elektronika BK-0010
A. V. Khramtsov, Russia
EOS (2)
1996c
Experience. Overwhelming. Satisfaction. Was an OS specially designed to run games under.
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Apple Network Server
1996
Operating system for Apple Network Server computers.
Apple Network Server
Apple, USA
Datapac System Manager
1996
Derivative of Datapac Multiuser DOS.
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DataPac Australasia, Australia
JavaOS
1996
Operating system with a Java virtual machine as a fundamental component.
ARM, PowerPC, SPARC, IA-32 (x86)
Sun Microsystems, USA
Palm OS
1996
Discontinued mobile operating system initially developed by Palm for personal digital assistants (PDAs).
Palm PDA
Palm, USA
Freedows
1996
Open-source attempt at creating a Windows clone for x86 platforms.
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Caldera OpenDOS 7.01
1997
MS-DOS compatible operating system, the descendant of DR DOS and Novell DOS.
-
Digital Research, USA
GEOS-SC
1997
Successor of GEOS 3.0 (PEN/GEOS).
32-bit-RISC-CPU-System
GeoWorks, USA
SkyOS
1997
Commercial desktop OS for PCs.
IA-32
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Inferno (2 versions)
1997
Distributed OS derived from Plan 9, originally from Bell Labs.
ARM, PA-RISC, MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC, x86
Bell Labs, Vita Nuova, USA
Rhapsody
1997
Code name given to Apple Computer's next-generation operating system during the period of its development between Apple's purchase of NeXT in late 1996 and the announcement of Mac OS X (now called "macOS") in 1998.
NeXT
Apple, USA
INtime
1997
Real Time Operation System family is based on a 32 bit RTOS conceived to run time-critical operations cycle-times as low as 50μs.
x86
TenAsys, USA
Symbian OS
1997
Discontinued mobile operating system and computing platform designed for smartphones.
ARM‎, ‎x86 computers
Symbian, UK
Nemesis Cambridge University research OS
1997c
General purpose Operating System support for multimedia.
x86 (i486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, and Pentium II), Alpha and ARM (StrongARM SA-110)
University of Cambridge, University of Glasgow, Swedish Institute of Computer Science and Citrix Systems, UK
ThreadX
1997
Highly deterministic, embedded real-time operating system.
ARC, ARM, Blackfin, CEVA, C6x, MIPS, NXP, PIC, PowerPC, RISC-V, RX, SH, SHARC, TI, V850, Xtensa, x86 and others
Express Logic, USA
POS (2)
1998
Peter Operating System. OS research project.
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OpenBLT
1998
Cleanroom implementation of a microkernel.
STM32, XMC, HCS12 microcontroller
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TTP
1998c
Operating System with many unique, innovative features including Pre-emptive Timeslicing, and Dynamic Multitasking. See Raven.
x86
PiSig Innovations Lab., USA
Windows 98 (1 versions)
1998
Aka Windows 4.1. Codename Memphis. Like its predecessor, Windows 98 is a hybrid 16-bit and 32-bit monolithic product with the boot stage based on MS-DOS.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
AgentOS
1998
Agent-based Distributed Operating System for Mobile Networks.
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Larry Chen, USA
eCos
1998
Embedded Configurable Operating System. Free and open-source real-time operating system intended for embedded systems and applications which need only one process with multiple threads. Compatible with the japanese norm µITron.
ARM (Cortex-Ax, Cortex-Mx), CalmRISC, FR-V, Hitachi H8, IA-32, Motorola 68000, Matsushita AM3x, MIPS, NEC V8xx, Nios II, PowerPC, SPARC, and SuperH
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Mungi
1998
Operating system project that originally proposed a one global distributed shared memory, aka a single address space or SAS (starting with 64-bit virtual address space).
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University of South Wales, Australia
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Deos Time & Space Partitioned
1998
Certified to DO-178B, Level A since 1998.
x86, PowerPC, MIPS
DDC-I, USA
Fox
1998c
CMU project to write an OS using (an extension to) the programming language Standard ML.
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Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
JunOS
1998
JavaOS successor.
-
Juniper Networks, USA
KangaroOS
1998c
Operating system implementing multitasking by providing a VM to each process; processes can also have subprocesses that they can schedule at their liking.
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FreeDOS (3 versions)
1998
Formerly Free-DOS and PD-DOS. Free operating system for IBM PC compatible computers.
IBM PC compatibles
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KOS (2)
1998
Kid Operating System. Small project of developing an OS being worked on by a few French people.
x86
Dimitri Ara, Thomas Petazzoni, France
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Phoenix
1999
Based on a concept of persistent virtual memory, and is managed-code oriented. Phantom OS is one of a few OSes that are not based on classical concepts of Unix-like systems.
IA-32
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
AdaOS
1999c
Project to create a new fully distributed OS, written mostly in Ada.
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PVOS
1999
Proprietary OS for Casio Pocket Viewer.
Casio Pocket Viewer
Casio, Japan
Raven
1999
Another attempt at making an OS for x86 PCs from scratch. Now TTP.
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EduOS
1999c
Small OS that was being written for educational purposes and for the x86 architecture.
IA-32, 80386+ processors
Frank Cornelis, Belgium
Mac OS X (10 versions)
1999
Next version of Apple's highly proprietary OS, was not based on the Copland development project, but on a cross with NeXTStep called Rhapsody (which up to Dev release 2 was available for PCs), and is designed to have the friendly MacOS graphical layer over 4.
IA-32, x86-64, Apple Macintosh
Apple, USA
REX OS
1999
Microkernel OS. Usually an embedded cell phone OS.
ARM
Qualcomm, USA
Apostle
1999
Project is based on a microkernel, for which has been started a project apart, Gemini Nucleus, whose inspiration sources are L4, Aegis and EROS.
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Guido de Jong, J. Spencer Seidel, Netherlands
z/Linux
1999
Linux on IBM Z (or Linux on z for short, and previously Linux on z Systems) is the collective term for the Linux operating system compiled to run on IBM mainframes, especially IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE servers.
IBM System z
IBM, USA
AROS
1999
AROS Research Operating System, formerly known as Amiga Research Operating System. Free open source AmigaOS like OS.
Commodore Amiga
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OSSO
1999
A Micro Kernel Operating System written from scratch.
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JANOS
1999c
Java-oriented Active Network Operating System. Java-Oriented Active Network OS.
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DARPA, Novell, Compaq,University of Utah, USA
Milos
1999
Preemptive operating system for small microprocessors.
Cortex-M3
Milos, Italy
BlackBerry OS
1999
Proprietary mobile operating system developed by BlackBerry for its BlackBerry line of smartphone handheld devices.
Blackberry
BlackBerry, Canada
FTOS
2000s
Force10 Operating System. Firmware family used on Force10 Ethernet switches.
Force10 routers
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DoOrS
2000s
Operating system created for educational purposes.
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A.Baranovskis, A.Ruckij, V.Birbilas, Lituania
mipOS
2000s
Multum In Parvo Operating System. Cooperative multitasking RTOS designed for single-chip micro-controllers with severely limited RAM (e.g. less than 256 bytes) and ROM. It provides the flexibility of an RTOS in low-cost embedded designs.
Cortex-M3, ST7, STM8, x86
Antonino Calderone, Italy
Fusion RTOS
2000s
Priority-based, preemptive, multitasking, real-time operating system designed and optimized for high performance DSPs and media-centric microprocessors.
ARM, Blackfin, StarCore, DSP 56800E
Unicoi Systems, USA
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FutureOS
2000s
Expanded OS for Amstrad computers optimized for speeed.
Amstrad CPC6128, 6128Plus, C-One and CPC TREX
Future Soft, Germany
Sartoris Microkernel
2000s
Portable microkernel and a set of operating system services.
x86
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FX-RTOS
2000s
Real-time operating system for embedded applications.
ARMv6-M (Cortex-M0/M1), ARMv7-M (Cortex-M3), ARMv7-A (including Cortex A9 MPCore), x86, AVR32, PIC32, MIPS M4K, TI MSP430
Eremex, Russia
L4ka
2000c
Extremely fast microkernel available for x86, ARM, MIPS and other architectures.
x86, ARM, MIPS
University of Karlsruhe, Germany, Germany
_unknown
2000s
Unnamed NetBSD variant for Airport Extreme and Time Capsule.
Router
Apple, USA
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GalaXyOS
2000s
Simple to use but highly sure and stable OS.
-
Massimo Angiolani, Italy
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Phantom OS
2000s
Based on a concept of persistent virtual memory, and is managed-code oriented. Phantom OS is one of a few OSes that are not based on classical concepts of Unix-like systems.
IA-32, MIPS and amd64
Digital Zone, Russia
Phar Lap ETS
2000s
Real-time operating system, used for instance on LabVIEW real-time targets. Now part of IntervalZero.
IA-32
Pha Lap, USA
Pharos
2000s
Free open-source RTOS for Critical Systems.
ARM926, Cortex-R5, Cortex-M4, Cortex-A53 (all with memory protection)
CEA, Delphi, Geensys, France
BRTOS
2000s
Real-Time Operating System.
ARM-Cortex, , Renesas RX600 (RX62N), TI MSP430, Atmel ATMEGA328/128 and Microchip PIC18
Brazil
MLNX-OS
2000s
Network operating system based on Debian.
InfiniBand switches
Mellanox, USA
NUFR
2000s
Real-Time Operating System.
ARM (Cortex-M0,-M3,-M4), MSP430, MSP430X (16- and 20-bit models)
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scmRTOS
2000s
Tiny Real-Time Preemptive Operating System intended for use with Single-Chip Microcontrollers.
ARM, Cortex-M3, Blackfin, MSP430, AVR, STM8
Russia
Nut/OS
2000s
Open source operating system for Ethernut boards.
AVR, AVR32, ARM7, ARM9, Cortex-M3
Ethernut community, Germany
mLithOS
2000s
Para-virtualised guest operating system for less complex systems which provides the ARINC 653 P4 subset as a lightweight alternative to LithOS (P1) for embedded real time operating systems used in avionics.
SPARC LEON 2-3-4, x86
FentISS, Spain
Trampoline
2000s
Static RTOS for small embedded systems. Its API is aligned with OSEK/VDX OS and AUTOSAR OS 4.2 standards.
AVR, H8-300H, POSIX, NEC V850e, ARM7, Infineon C166, HCS12 or PowerPC
LS2N (ex-IRCCyN) Laboratory, France
2K
2000c
Formerly known as SPINE. Distributed, reflexive, component-based, adaptable OS.
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University of Illinois, Universidad Carlos III - Madrid, USA, Spain
picoOS
2000s
Highly configurable and very fast real time operating system. It targets a wide range of architectures, from the small 8 bit processors with very low memory till huge architectures like 32 bit processors with lots of memory.
6502, 80x86, ARM7, AVR, PowerPC, Cortex-M, MSP430, PIC32
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PICOS18
2000s
Real-time operating system for PIC18 microntroller.
PIC18
Pragmatec, France
PikeOS
2000s
Certified real time operating system for safety and security critical embedded systems.
PPC, x86, ARM, MIPS, SPARC-LEON, SuperH
SYSGO, Germany
GEC DOS
2000s
See DOS (3).
GEC 4000 series
GEC Computers, UK
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Piko/RT
2000s
Tiny Linux-like real-time operating system kernel, optimized for ARM Cortex-M series microprocessors. Based on the OSEK/VDX standard.
ARM Cortex-M3/M4
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PilOS
2000s
Full blown 64-bit PicoLisp runs directly on a standard x86-64 PC hardware.
x86-64 PC
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Lepton
2000s
Open source POSIX "compliant" Operating System for deeply embedded devices. Based on embOS. See Tauon.
ARM9, ARM7, CortexM3, CortexM4
Philippe Le Boulanger, France
Abassi
2000s
Real-time kernel.
AVR32, ATmega, ColdFire, Cortex-A9, Cortex-M0, Cortex-M3, Cortex-M4, MSP430, PIC32, TMS320C2000, 80251, 8051
Code Time, USA
LibreWRT
2000s
GNU/Linux-libre operating system for computers with minimal resources, such as the Ben Nanonote, ath9k based Wi-Fi routers. LibreWRT was merged to the libreCMC project in 2015.
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Jason Self, Denver Gingerich, USA
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Ace OS
2000s
32bit multitasking operating system for IA32 developed for experimental and exploration purpose.
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LightOS
2000s
Open-source operating system for x86 computers, based on DR-DOS/OpenDOS 7.01.
x86
Corbin Davenport, USA
Windows 2000 (4 versions)
2000
Aka Windows NT 5.0. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released: Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
TrustedBSD
2000
Unix-like OS of the BSD family which provides a set of trusted operating system extensions to the FreeBSD operating system, targeting the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC).
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Robert Watson, USA
POK
2000s
Partitioned Operating System. Real-time embedded operating system for safety-critical systems (avionics, aerospace). It provides several functionalities and complies with many industrial standards, such as ARINC653 or POSIX. POK was designed to be used in safety-critical systems as well as in public systems.
x86, PowerPC, SPARC
France
DOS-C
2000s
MS-DOS compatible operating system with the original FreeDOS kernel.
x86
Pascquale Villani, Italy
OliveBSD
2000s
LiveCD based on OpenBSD 3.8.
x86
Gabriel Paderni, France
Gentoo/FreeBSD
2000s
Unix-like operating system developed in order to bring Gentoo Linux design, structure, and tools such as Portage and the Gentoo Linux base layout to the FreeBSD operating system.
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Portos
2000s
Real Time Operating System.
ARM
Softwave Wireless, France
Capital OS
2000s
Capital is an Object Oriented Operating System being developed for iPAX386+ processors. It features a multithreading tasking model. The kernel itself is multithreaded and is fully preemptible giving support for Real Time processes.
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Nippun Goel, India
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SDPOS
2000s
Small Devices Portable Operating System. Mini operating system providing basic scheduling services (cooperative and real time modes) and an hardware abstraction layer enabling the user to quickly developp embedded applications minimizing the need to learn specific processor architectural details.
ARM, Cortex-M3, Blackfin, PIC18, PIC24, i386 win32/linux synthetic targets
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mOnOwall
2000s
Embedded firewall distribution of FreeBSD. It provides a small image which can be put on Compact Flash cards as well as on CD-ROMs and hard disks.
x86
Manuel Kasper, Switzerland
Gentoo/OpenBSD
2000s
Gentoo BSD subproject to port Gentoo features such as Portage to the OpenBSD operating system.
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MontaVista Linux
2000s
Embedded Linux.
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MonteVista Software, USA
PowerTV
2000s
Open platform for developing, delivering, and driving real-world, broadband digital and analog video over two-way hybrid fiber coax (HFC) systems.
-
PowerTV, USA
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Gentoo/NetBSD
2000s
Provide a GNU userland managed by Portage with a NetBSD kernel.
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MorphOS (28 versions)
2000
AmigaOS-like computer operating system. It is a mixed proprietary and open source OS produced for the Pegasos PowerPC processor based computer, PowerUP accelerator equipped Amiga computers.
Amiga compatible
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CarbonOS
2000s
Open-source operating system, based on FreeDOS kernel. CarbonOS is a successor of discontinued LightDOS. Compaible with MS-DOS.
x86
Corbin Davenport, USA
SHaRK
2000s
Soft Hard Real-time Kernel. Completely configurable kernel architecture designed for supporting hard, soft, and non real-time applications with interchangeable scheduling algorithms. Evolution of the Hartik Kernel and it is based on the OSLib Project.
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Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
TUD:OS
2000s
TU Dresden Research Operating System.
ARM, IA-32, x86-64
TU Dresden, Germany
Proolix
2000s
Unix clone project for the old 8086 PCs, from former USSR.
i8086
Serge Pustovoitoff, Russia
chaOS (1)
2000s
Like OpenBLT is a cleanroom implementation of an OS based on a microkernel (codenamed Storm), announced over the summer; there is both code and documentation available on the site, as well as a downloadable and bootable demo floppy that will let you try your hand at it in no time.
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Henrik Hallin and Per Lundberg, Sweden
Protothreads
2000s
Extremely lightweight stackless threads designed for severely memory constrained systems.
AVR 8051
Adam Dunkels, Sweden
ChaOS (2)
2000s
Simple 32bit operating with simple code. Perfect to teach basics. In future it will be using 4 rings of CPU.
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Fixa, Poland
silRTOS
2000s
Open source micro real time kernel.
ARM, Cortex-M3 Cortex-A9 ARM-11MP, Blackfin, MIPS, AVR
SpanIdea, USA
Simba
2000s
Embedded Programming Platform.
Arduino Nano (AVR), Arduino Mega (AVR), Arduino Due (ARM), ESP8266, ESP32, cygwin/linux
Erik Moqvist, Sweden
Ging
2000s
CD boot OS based on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, which is based on Debian, GNU and the kernel of FreeBSD.
x86
USA
SimpleAVROS
2000s
RTOS designed special for AVR microcontrollers.
AVR only
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ChibiOS/RT
2000s
Compact and fast real-time operating system supporting multiple architectures and released under the GPL3 license.
Intel 80386, ARM7, ARM9, ARM Cortex-M0, ARM Cortex-M3, ARM Cortex-M4, PPC, e200z, Atmel AVR, TI MSP430, STM8, Freescale Coldfire, Renesas H8S
Giovanni Di Sirio, Italy
GNU-DarWin
2000s
Unique combination of Darwin and GNU.
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ChronOS
2000s
Real-time Linux patch.
x86, ARM
Virginia Tech, USA
QP
2000s
Quantum Platform. Family of lightweight, open source software frameworks for building responsive and modular real-time embedded applications as systems of cooperating, event-driven active objects (actors).
ARM7/9, ARM Cortex-M3-M0, MSP430, TMS320C28x, AVR, AVRXmega, ColdFire, 68HC08, M16C/R8C, H8, 8051, 80251, PIC18, PIC24/dsPIC33, Nios II, PSoC1
Quantum Leaps, USA
Cleese
2000s
Operating system written in Python with the Python VM as a micro-kernel on top of a minimal C/asm layer.
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ClosedBSD
2000s
Live CD of FreeBSD.
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Qt Extended
2000s
Application platform for embedded Linux-based mobile computing devices such as personal digital assistants, video projectors and mobile phones.
PDA, Mobile phones
Qt Software, Finland
Clicker
2000s
Microkernel-based system for x86 hardware. It's based on modular architecture and already supports preemptive multithreading + user-level processes.
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Pype & the Clicker Development Team, Belgium
Groovyos
2000s
Open source OS.
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Chris Doman, UK
a-kernel
2000s
Was a project to determine if AOP can be used to improve OS modularity, and thereby reduce complexity and fragility associated with system implementation.
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Yvonne Coady, Gregor Kiczales, Ida Chan, Greg Smolyn, International
CoActionOS
2000s
Now Stratify OS.
ARM Cortex-M3, LPC17xx
Stratify Labs, USA
cocoOS
2000s
Free, open source, cooperative task scheduler, based on coroutines targeted for embedded microcontrollers like AVR, MSP430 and STM32.
AVR, MSP430, STM32
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OpenEPOS
2000s
Embedded Parallel Operating System.
ARM, x86, AVR, MIPS, PowerPC
Brazil
rdos (2)
2000c
x86 based OS written entirely in assembly. Provides protection with segmentation. Multithreaded with support for DOS, DPMI and Win32 console apps. Possible to add other emulated environments like UNIX.
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Leif Ekblad, Sweden
Windows Millennium Edition
2000
Aka Windows ME (Windows 4.9). Familial version of Windows 2000.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
altOSdev
2000s
Just another view on how should OS be designed.
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Dozz, Finland
Windows Mobile (5 versions)
2000
Based on Windows CE, but for a smaller form factor.
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Microsoft, USA
Amateur OS
2000s
Real time, minimum kernel operating system for doing DSP work and amateur radio digital modes.
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Comware
2000s
Network operating system for Comware switches.
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Hewlett-Packard, USA
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SEOS
2000s
SmartEdge Operating System.
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Ericsson, Sweden
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openRTOS
2000s
Provides a commercial license for Amazon FreeRTOS. This includes a license for the FreeRTOS kernel as well as, if needed, the additional software libraries that make up Amazon FreeRTOS.
ARM, AVR, AVR32, ColdFire, HCS12, IA-32, Cortex-M3-M4-M7, MicroBlaze, MSP430, PIC, PIC32, Renesas H8/S, RX100-200-600-700, 8052, STM32, EFM32
Real Time Engineers, USA
SmartOS
2000s
Illumos distribution for cloud computing with Kernel-based Virtual Machine integration.
x86-64
Joyent, USA
Helium
2000s
Minimalistic real-time kernel for the HC(S)08 core by Freescale and Atmel AVR.
HCS08, AVR
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DuinOS
2000s
Small multithreading real time operating system (RTOS), based on the FreeRTOS kernel, for Arduino compatible boards.
AVR (Arduino)
Robot Group, Argentina
Dynacube Operating System
2000s
Full fledged open source, x86 based, 32bit Protected mode, multitasking operating system.
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E/OS LX Desktop
2000s
Free open source Graphical Desktop for DOS for run Microsoft Windows, Microsoft DOS and Linux programs. Based on Wine, Linux and DOSEMU.
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Emanuel Chanampa, Argentina
Horizon
2000s
Research Operating System. It is written for the i386 processor family, using C (gcc) and some Assembly (nasm).
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Francesco Frigo, Italy
EdgeBSD
2000s
BSD based operating system.
x86, x86_64
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Hybridthreads
2000s
Real-time embedded operating system, that allows programmers to run threads, simultaneously on the CPU and FPGA fabric.
Xilinx Virtex-II Pro ML310, Xilinx Virtex-II Pro XUP
University of Arkansas, USA
OpenSXCE
2000s
Opensolaris based distribution.
x86, SPARC
Martin Bochnig, Germany
hyperCOS
2000s
Brand-new OS designed specially for low-power device, such as Internet-of-Things (IoT).
ARM7, ARM9, Cortex-R, Cortex-M3, Cortex-M4F
socware.net, International
Elbrus OS
2000s
Linux-based operating system for the Elbrus 801-PC.
Elbrus 801-PC
Russia
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LithOS
2000s
Para-virtualised guest operating system which provides the primitives to create the system resources (blackboards, buffers, events, semaphores...) and the mechanisms to create threads, timers and the process scheduler.
SPARC LEON 2-3-4, x86
FentISS, Spain
COS (7)
2000s
Core Operating System. For diskless real-time systems.
GEC 4000 series
GEC Computers, UK
ReaGOS
2000s
Preemptive single-stack kernel.
x86, ATmega, ARM, portable
OBP Research, Finland
SOOS Project
2000s
Server Oriented Operating System. Operating system (OS) specially designed for embedded systems.
Hitachi H8/300
David Donari, Leo Ordinez, Rodrigo Santos, Brazil
Illumian
2000s
Open-source operating system that combines technologies from Nexenta OS, OpenIndiana and Debian GNU/Linux. Successor of a discontinued Nexenta OS.
x86, x86-64
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Unison
2000s
RTOS 32 Bit Open Standards, Linux Compatible, Ultra Tiny Size, Modularity, POSIX-compliant RTOS that supports a variety of wireless modules and provides a complete set of security protocols.
Renesas, TI, Cypress/Spansion, Freescale/NXP, Microsemi, ST Microelectronics microcontrollers
RoweBots, USA
IBM i5/OS
2000s
Extends OS/400 with significant interoperability features.
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IBM, USA
cos2000
2000s
Un OS en fran?ais enti?rment en ASM. Le site traite aussi de la prog des OS.
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cos2000, France
Cosmos (1)
2000s
Open Source Managed Operating System a toolkit for building operating systems written in C.
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Cosmos (2)
2000s
Aka Borealis. Small OS built with NASM and DJGPP.
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embOS (2)
2000s
Real-time operating system designed to be used as a foundation for the development of embedded real-time applications for a wide range of microcontrollers.
ARM7/9/11, ARM Cortex-A/R/M, AVR, AVR32, C16x, CR16C, ColdFire, H8, HCS12, M16C, M32C, MSP430, NIOS2, PIC18/24/32, R32C, R8C, RISC-V, RL78, RH850, RX100/200/600/700, RZ, SH2A, STM8, ST7, V850, 78K0, 8051
SEGGER Microcontroller, Germany
Embox
2000s
Configurable operating system kernel designed for resource constrained and embedded systems.
ARM, SPARC, LEON, MicroBlaze, MIPS, PowerPC, x86
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m0n0wall
2000s
Embedded firewall distribution of FreeBSD, one of the BSD operating system descendants.
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SROS
2000s
Service Router Operating System. Based on VxWorks.
Alcatel-Lucent routers
Alcatel-Lucent, USA
RedHawk Linux
2000s
Real-time operating system is designed specifically for mission-critical server and embedded applications.
x86, ARM64
Concurrent, USA
ILIOS
2000s
InterLink Internet Operating System. Research OS designed for routing.
i386
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Anonymous.OS
2000s
Live CD operating system based on OpenBSD 3.8 with strong encryption and anonymization tools. The goal of the project was to provide secure, anonymous web browsing access to everyday users.
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ENOS (2)
2000s
Enterprise Networking Operating System. Data center-class network operating system.
Lenovo and IBM switches
Lenovo, China
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Remix OS
2000s
Operating system for personal computers. Alow PC users to run Android mobile apps on any compatible Intel-based PC.
IA-32, x86-64, ARM
Jide Technology, China
XMK
2000s
eXtreme Minimal Kernel. Real-time operating system that is designed for minimal RAM/ROM use.
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Shift-Right Technologies, USA
Enterprise OS (M-EOS)
2000s
Operating system for McData (now Brocade) switches.
McData switches
McDATA, USA
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StateOS
2000s
Free, extremely simple, amazingly tiny and very fast real-time operating system (RTOS) designed for deeply embedded applications.
ARM Cortex-M, STM8
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Static OS
2000s
Live CD protected-mode OS.
x86
Stefan Mayer, Austria
XOPE
2000s
Free Micro-Kernel Based Open Source Operating System.
i80386
Frank Anemaet, Daniel Pischl, Netherlands
X-OS
2000s
X-OS - French OS Project.
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Apache Mynewt
2000s
Modular real-time operating system for connected Internet of things.
Cortex-M0, Cortex-M3, Cortex-M4, Cortex-M7, MIPS32, Microchip PIC32, RISC-V
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IMS REAL/NG
2000s
Successor of REAL/32.
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Intelligent Micro Software, UK
StormOS
2000s
Desktop focused distribution based on Nexenta Core Platform 2.0.
x86-64
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XOS (3)
2000s
X Operating System.
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Stratify OS
2000s
Microcontroller operating system designed to bring the software innovation model that has made computers and smartphones enormously successful to microcontroller hardware.
ARM Cortex-M3, M4
Statify Labs, USA
RIOT
2000s
Small operating system for networked, memory-constrained systems with a focus on low-power wireless Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
TI MSP430, ARM7, ARM Cortex-M0-M0+-M3-M4, Atmel AVR, MIPS32r2
FU Berlin, INRIA, HAW Hamburg, Germany
INTEGRITY (1 versions)
2000s
Real-time operating system.
ARM, Blackfin, ColdFire, MIPS, PowerPC, XScale, and x86
Green Hills Software, USA
uOS
2000s
Operating system for embedded microcontrollers.
AVR, ARM, MIPS32, MSP430, i386
Russia
z/OS (3 versions)
2000
OS/390 supported z/Architecture, 64-bit addressing.
IBM System z
IBM, USA
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Cray Linux Environment (CLE)
2000s
Operating system for Cray supercomputers. New name for UNICOS/lc.
Cray computers
USA
Y@SOS
2000s
Yet Another Small OS. Free real-time OS especially dedicated to ARM Cortex-M3 micro-controllers.
Cortex-M3, STM32
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IntrOS
2000s
Free, simple and tiny cooperative operating system designed for deeply embedded applications.
ARM Cortex-M, STM8, AVR8
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uSmartx
2000s
Non-preemptive, multitasking, priority based RTOS.
ARM7TDMI, AVR, H8
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MachTen
2000s
Unix-like OS, a commercial version of 4.4BSD using Mach on 680x0 and PPC MacIntoshes.
Apple Macintosh
Tenon Intersystems, USA
z/VM
2000
z/Architecture version of the VM OS with 64-bit addressing.
IBM System z
IBM, USA
Arm Mbed OS
2000s
Platform and operating system for internet-connected devices based on 32-bit ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers.
Cortex-M, Cortex-R, Cortex-A
ARM, UK
ArmOS
2000s
Accelerated Realtime Multitasking Operating System. Full-featured, prioritized, multitasking, message based, real-time operating system.
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National Politchnical University of Armenia, Armenia
macOS Server (1 versions)
2000s
Formerly Mac OS X Server and OS X Server. separately sold operating system add-on which provides additional server programs along with management and administration tools for macOS.
IA-32, x86-64, Apple Macintosh
Apple, USA
Maestro
2000s
Next-generation operating system for the most performant embedded hardware available today. Maestro is designed specifically for multi- and many-core processors and provides reliable parallelism to application developers.
ARMv7-A, ARMv8-A, PowerPC64, IA-32
Hipperos, Belgium
Magic Cap
2000s
Magic Communicating Applications Platform. Discontinued object-oriented operating system for PDAs.
PDA
General Magic, USA
RODOS
2000s
Realtime Onboard Dependable Operating System. Real-time operating system for embedded systems and was designed for application domains demanding high dependability.
ARMv7 (M3, A8, A9), AVR32, PowerPC 405, sparc64
German Aerospace Center, Germany
ARTOS (1)
2000s
Optimised distributed operating system with all facilities for real-time multiprocessor and real-time network configurations including Internet support and advanced development tools.
x86
Locamation, Netherlands
ARTOS (2)
2000s
ARM Real Time Operating System. Designed to allow control of embedded devices in real time.
ARM9+
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magnussoft ZETA
2000s
Formerly yellowTAB ZETA. Based on BeOS source code.
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yellowTAB, USA
MarBSD
2000s
OpenBSD live CD.
x86, x86_86, Sparc64
France
CyOS
2000
OS for Cybiko PDA.
Cybiko
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Mark3
2000s
Sophisticated, modern RTOS and application development platform, targeted towards a growing list of today's most compelling embedded devices.
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ExtremeWare
2000s
Based on VxWorks.
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Extreme Networks, USA
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) (7 versions)
2000
Designed for servers, mainframes, and workstations but can be installed on desktop computers for testing as well.
IA-32, x86-64, s390x, PowerPC, Itanium, aarch32, aarch64
SUSE, Germany
NXOS
2000s
Network operating system for the Nexus-series Ethernet switches and MDS-series Fibre Channel storage area network switches made by Cisco Systems.
Cisco switches
Cisco, USA
IXI-Connect
2000s
Phone Operating system for the Oxo mobile device based on Nucleos OS.
Ogo
IXI Mobile, USA
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AtheOS
2000
Discontinued free and open source operating system for x86-based computers. It was initially intended as an AmigaOS clone, but that objective was later abandoned. Branched to become Syllable Desktop.
x86
Kurt Skauen, Denmark
Atomic OS
2000s
Minimalist OS fitting on a boot sector of a floppy.
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F9 microkernel
2000s
Experimental microkernel used to construct flexible embedded systems inspired by famous L4 microkernel.
ARM Cortex-M3/M4
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Atomthreads
2000s
Free, lightweight, portable, real-time scheduler for embedded systems.
AVR, STM8, ARM, MIPS
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AuraOS
2000s
Multi-user, multi-tasking and multilingual C# operating system using Cosmos and IL2CPU.
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Genesi, USA
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Familiar Linux
2000
Linux distribution for iPAQ machines and other personal digital assistants (PDAs), intended as a replacement for Windows CE on these machines.
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Avios
2000s
A VIrtual Operating System. The idea behind this project is to have a networked system that can run multiple processes and be all things to all men.
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AVIX
2000s
RTOS based on the segmented RTOS architecture. AVIX supports many of the most advanced micro controllers and fully exploits their capabilities.
Atmel AT91SAM3(U/S), EFM32, NXP LPC1300-1700, ST Micro STM32, Texas Instruments LM3S, Toshiba TMPM330, Microchip PIC32MX-PIC24F-PIC24H-dsPIC30F-dsPIC33F
AVIX-RT, USA
IOS
2000s
Internetwork Operating System. Family of software used on most Cisco Systems routers and current Cisco network switches.
Cisco switches
Cisco Systems, USA
IOS-XE
2000s
Train of Cisco Systems' widely deployed Internetworking Operating System.
Cisco routers
Cisco Systems, USA
IOS-XR
2000s
Train of Cisco Systems' widely deployed Internetworking Operating System (IOS), used on their high-end Network Converging System (NCS), carrier-grade routers.
Cisco routers
Cisco Systems, USA
OS20
2000s
Real-time kernel.
ST20 microprocessors
STMicrosystems, Canada
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OS2000 (2)
2000s
See Baget RTOS.
MIPS (Baget-MIPS variant), KOMDIV-32, KOMDIV-64, Intel BSPs (x86)
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Nano-RK
2000s
Real-time operating system (RTOS) designed to run on micro-controllers for use in sensor networks.
AVR, MSP430
Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
OS21
2000s
Real-time kernel.
ST40/SH4, ST200, ARM
STMicrosystems, Canada
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Dell Real Mode Kernel (DRMK)
2000s
Dell Real Mode Kernel. close to MS-DOS and PC-DOS. OS used when booting to the Restore or Utility partitions on recent Dell systems.
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Dell, USA
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BAB - BABy
2000s
Basic Abstraction Block. 50Kb IA-32 microkernel for DOS. It manages the x86 hardware interaction in a manner similar to Windows' HAL. BABy can be used to provide PMode services to our shareware multiuser O/S, VMiX x86 (listed velow). Distribution includes binaries, sources, makefiles, samples and API docs.
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VMiX-x86
2000s
DOS extender that adds Unix like multi-user capabilities. Version 3.0 will be DPMI compliant and will use a new portable microkernel named 'BABy'.
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Baget RTOS
2000s
Real-time operating system developed for a MIPS (Baget-MIPS variant) and Intel BSPs (x86 architecture).
MIPS (Baget-MIPS variant), KOMDIV-32, KOMDIV-64, Intel BSPs (x86 architecture)
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Denali
2000s
Kernel for multiplexing virtual machines.
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University of Washington, USA
OSA
2000s
Cooperative multitasking real-time operating system for Microchip PIC-controllers.
PIC10-PIC24, AVR 8-bit, STM8
Russia
iRTOS
2000s
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AVR, ARM7
Russia
MenuetOS (2 versions)
2000
Extremely compact OS with GUI, written entirely in FASM assembly language.
IA-32, x86-64
Ville M. Turjanmaa, Finland
OSD/XC
2000s
BS2000 ported to an emulation on a Sun SPARC platform.
Fujitus SQ series business servers
Fujitsu-Siemens, Japan
TAJ
2000s
TAJ is India's first object oriented operating system. Its developed in C++. The code is well modularised & maintain. TAJ is a multitasking, multithreading and multiuser operating system.
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Viral Patel, India
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VMiX x86
2000s
New Version of this Multiuser DOS, originally introduced in 1984, The design of VMiX has changed to allow it to migrate from IA32 architectures to the newer AMD64 and IA64 environments.
x86
SysDev, USA
Talon DSP RTOS (5 versions)
2000s
Suite of five POSIX Compliant Real Time Operating Systems that are individually optimized for each TI DSP family.
TMS320
Blackhawk, USA
DEX
2000s
Extensible operating system (dex-os). Educational operating system that supports a plug-in like architecture and aims to achieve zero static inter-module calls.
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ISIX
2000s
Operating system kernel for ARM microcontrollers.
Cortex-M3
Poland
Micro OS X
2000s
Free DOS like Operating System which fits on one floppy disk. The new Micro OS X is the third generation of Micro OS. The Micro OS X Workspace Manager is based on GEM Desktop.
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Bjoern Schnackenbeck, Germany
RT-Thread
2000s
Open source scalable real-time operating system for embedded devices.
ARM, x86, MIPS, PowerPC, RISC-V, Andes
RT-Thread, China
DF-DOS
2000s
Real mode OS (similar to XOA-DOS). Built using NASM for x86 (386+) CPU's. And designed for normal floppy disks. Source available and some tutorials/documents. Main purpose of the site is to initally learn about OS development rather than commercial or linux like use.
x86
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RTAI
2000s
Real-time application interface. Real-time extension for the Linux kernel, which lets users write applications with strict timing constraints for Linux.
x86, ARM
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Tauon
2000s
Based on oCos. See Lepton.
ARM9, ARM7, CortexM3, CortexM4
Philippe Le Boulanger, France
DilOS
2000s
Illumos based platform (Solaris).
x86-64, SPARC
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BeleniX
2000s
Discontinued operating system distribution built using the OpenSolaris source base.
x86
India
Microsoft Invisible Computing (MMLite)
2000s
Toolkit for building systems for invisible computing and embedded web services.
ARM7-9, i386, h8, MIPS, Trimedia, eCog1
Microsoft, USA
BeRTOS
2000s
Real-time operating system designed for embedded systems.
ARM, Cortex-M3, ARM ARM7TDMI, Atmel AVR, PowerPC (emu), x86 (emu), x86-64 (emu)
Develer, BeRTOS community, Italy
RTLinux
2000s
Hard realtime real-time operating system microkernel that runs the entire Linux operating system as a fully preemptive process. The hard real-time property makes it possible to control robots, data acquisition systems, manufacturing plants, and other time-sensitive instruments and machines from RTLinux applications.
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New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA
JFOS
2000s
A 32-bit multiprocess OS.
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jicama os
2000s
A fun os!
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jicama, China
Partikle
2000s
Embedded real time operating system designed to be POSIX compliant.
SPARC LEON 2-3-4, x86
fentISS, Spain
Distortos
2000s
Object-oriented C++ RTOS for microcontrollers.
ARM
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MilaX
2000s
Formerly Damn Small Solaris. Small size Live CD based on OpenSolaris.
x86, sparc64
Alexander Eremin, Russia
TinyOS
2000
Embedded, component-based operating system and platform for low-power wireless devices, such as those used in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), smartdust, ubiquitous computing, personal area networks, building automation, and smart meters.
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RTOS (4)
2000s
Real-time operating system.
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Force10 Networks, USA
NewOS
2000s
Open source OS with an emphasis on design and portability; it is largely implemented in C/C++, with a small amount of assembly. NewOS kernel is used by Haiku OS.
x86, Sega Dremacast, PowerPC, ARM, Sun Blade 100, NeXT, SGI Indy, DEC Multia
Travis Geiselbrecht, USA
KallistiOS
2000
Pseudo real-time OS for gaming console.
Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo Gameboy, x86, Sony Playstation
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RT-Thread
2000s
Open source real-time operating system for embedded devices.
ARM, ARM Cortex-M0-M3-R4-M4-M7, IA-32, AVR32, Blackfin, nios, PPC, M16C, MIPS (loongson-1b-1c, PIC32,xburst), MicroBlaze, V850, unicore32
Bernard Xiong & RT-Thread Team, China
NI Linux Real-Time
2000s
Linux-based real-time OS.
National Instruments CompactRIO controllers
National Instruments, USA
Bluebottle
2000s
Also known as AOS. Concurrent and active object update to the Oberon operating system.
IA-32, x86-64, ARM, Cell
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
KarmaBSD
2000s
Aka 1FCD-OpBSD. One Floppy OpenBSD MP3 Player.
x86
Juraj Sipos, Slovakia
RTX Keil Real-Time Operating System
2000s
Deterministic Real-Time Operating System designed for ARM and Cortex-M devices. Now part of Arm Holding.
ARM
Keil Elektronik, Germany
BOOS Core
2000s
Real-time object-oriented operating kernel for embedded systems.
ARMv5TEJ (TI AM18x), DSP (TI TMS320C64x)
Baigudin Software, Russia
TNeo
2000s
Compact and fast real-time kernel for embedded 32/16 bits microprocessors.
Cortex-M0-M0+-M1-M3-M4-M4F, PIC24-32-dsPIC
Russia
Kithara RTS
2000s
Modular real-time extension for Windows, which combines hardware-dependent programming, communication, automation protocols and image processing into a powerful real-time system.
Windows extension, x86, x86-64, Windows XP-10
Kithara Software, Germany
TNKernel
2000s
compact and very fast real-time kernel for the embedded 32/16/8 bits microprocessors.
ARM, PIC24-32-dsPIC, HCS08, STM32 (Cortex-M3)
Yuri Tiomkin, Russia
dnx RTOS
2000s
Small general purpose real-time operating system based on the FreeRTOS kernel.
ARM Cortex-M3, STM32
Daniel Zorychta, Poland
Tock OS
2000s
Embedded operating system designed for running multiple concurrent, mutually distrustful applications on low-memory and low-power microcontrollers.
ARM Cortex
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BOS (5)
2000s
Bubach Operating System. No-kernel small x86 operating system written in Assembly.
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nOS (2)
2000s
Preemptive or cooperative scheduling RTOS for microcontrollers.
AVR, MSP430, Cortex-M0-M3-M4, M16C, RX600, PIC24, Win32, POSIX, STM8
Jim Tremblay, Canada
FreeOSEK
2000s
Scalable RTOS for embedded systems. Based on OSEK RTOS specification (OSEK-VDX).
Cortex-M4, MIPS, MSP430, SPARC LEON3
Argentina ?
Freescale MQX
2000s
Real-Time Operating System provides real-time performance within a small, configurable footprint. The RTOS is tightly integrated with the latest 32-bit MCUs and MPUs from Freescale. See MQX.
ARM ColdFire
NXP Semiconductors, Netherlands
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Frenzy
2000s
FreeBSD based operating system for system administrators. It contains software for hardware tests, file system check, security check and network setup and analysis.
x86
Ukraine
KOS (3)
2000s
Kid Operating System (KOS) - A French operating system project. A modular OS, written in C, with an object oriented driver management. Use protected mode. Lots of documentation on the Web site.
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Frosted
2000s
Free Operating Systems for Tiny Embedded Devices.
ARM Cortex-M
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safeRTOS
2000s
Complementary version of FreeRTOS, with common functionality but designed specifically for safety-critical implementation.
ARM, AVR, AVR32, ColdFire, HCS12, IA-32, Cortex-M3-M4-M7, MicroBlaze, MSP430, PIC, PIC32, Renesas H8/S, RX100-200-600-700, 8052, STM32, EFM32
Wittenstein High Integrity Systems, Real Time Engineers Ltd., UK
Torsion
2000s
Single address-space (SAS) OS with orthogonal persistence.
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Gemini
2001c
The goal is to create a production quality micro kernel based on the latest findings in operating system research. The result will be a micro-kernel having the following features: no abstractions, safe those necessary for protection, minimal set of primitives, support for capability based security, support for resource management needed for real-time and multimedia applications.
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Haiku (1 versions)
2001
Open source. Inspired by BeOS, under development. Specifically targeting personal computing.
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eComStation 1.0
2001
Warp 4.5/Workspace on Demand, rebundled by Serenity Systems International.
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IBM, USA
Windows XP (6 versions)
2001
Aka Windows NT 5.1
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
EmuTOS
2001
Replacement for TOS (the operating system of the Atari ST and its successors), released as free software.
Atari ST, Commodore Amiga
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Xenomai
2001
Real-time development framework cooperating with the Linux kernel, to provide a pervasive, interface-agnostic, hard real-time support to user space applications, seamlessly integrated into the Linux environment.
x86, x86-64, PowerPC, ARM, Analog Devices Blackfin BF52x, BF53x, BF54x and BF56x
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OS X (4 versions)
2001
See MacOS.
Apple iMac
Apple, USA
Mac OS X Server (7 versions)
2001
Separately sold operating system add-on which provides additional server programs along with management and administration tools for macOS.
IA-32, x86-64, Apple Macintosh
Apple, USA
macOS (3 versions)
2001
Formerly Mac OS X and OS X.
x86-64, IA-32, PowerPC, Apple Macintosh
Apple, USA
Darwin
2001
Open-source Unix-like operating system. It is composed of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NeXTSTEP, BSD, Mach, and other free software projects.
x86-64, 64-bit ARM, PowerPC, IA-32, 32-bit ARM
Apple, USA
OS/C
2001c
Small, open-source, Unix-like OS. Designed to preform networking tasks and other file-oriented processes whiltaking up very little of the computer's processing power.
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Visopsys
2001
Visual Operating System. The operating system is licensed under the GNU GPL.
IA-32
Andy McLaughlin, Canada
iPodLinux
2001
µClinux-based Linux distribution designed specifically to run on Apple iPod.
Apple iPod
Apple, USA
Neutrino
2001
Full-featured and robust OS that scales down to meet the constrained resource requirements of realtime embedded systems.
ARM, MIPS, PPC, SH, x86, XScale
Quantum Software Systems, Canada
KML
2001c
Kernel Mode Linux is a Linux OS variant which execute user.
IA-32
Toshiyuki Maeda and Akinori Yonezawa, Japan
MirOS BSD
2002
Originally called MirBSD. Free and open source operating system which started as a fork of OpenBSD.
i386, SPARC
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Sanos
2002
Minimalistic 32-bit x86 operating system kernel for network server appliances running on standard PC hardware.
IA-32
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Solar_OS
2002
Simple, easy, fast realtime 32bit GUI OS.
-
Bogdan Ontanu, Romania
Contiki
2002
Operating system for networked, memory-constrained systems with a focus on low-power wireless Internet of Things devices.
MSP430, AVR, ARM
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (8 versions)
2002
Linux for servers.
Servers
Red Hat, USA
ERIKA Enterprise
2002
Open-source OSEK/VDX Kernel.
ARM7, ARM Cortex-M, ARM Cortex-A, Hitachi H8, Altera Nios2, Microchip dsPIC, Microchip PIC32, ST Microelectronics ST10, Infineon C167, Infineon Tricore, Freescale PPC e200, Freescale S12XS, EnSilica eSi-RISC, AVR, Lattice Mico32, MSP430, Renesas RX200, x86-64
Evidence, France
RockBox
2002
Free and open-source software replacement for the OEM firmware in various forms of digital audio players (DAPs) with an original kernel.
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Syllable Desktop
2002
Modern, independently originated OS. See AtheOS.
IA-32
K. Van Der Vliet, K. de Vos, R. Caudill, A. Klenke, H. Isaksson, UK
Symobi
2002
SYstem for MOBIle applications. proprietary modern and mobile real-time operating system. Designed for the area of embedded and mobile systems.
-
Miray Software, Germany
BK-OS
2002c
Operating system developed with NASM, Free Pascal and GNU-Pascal (BK-OS 32) and Borland Pascal (BK-OS 16).
-
Claudio Biale, Argentina
PaulOS
2002
Embedded operating system.
Atmel board
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JX
2002
Java operating system that focuses on a flexible and robust operating system architecture developed as an open source system.
-
University of Erlangen, Germany
K42
2002
Open-source research operating system on PowerPC or x86 based cache-coherent multiprocessor systems.
PowerPC or x86
IBM, USA
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T-Kernel
2002
Open source real-time operating system designed for 32-bit microcontrollers. It is standardized by the T-Engine Forum, which distributes it under a "T-License" license agreement.
ARM, MIPS, SH
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Knewcleus
2002
Microkernel-based real-time OS that aims for POSIX compliance; while open sourced, the people behind it intend to make it a commercial venture and release a packaged version that will include additional things not present in the opensource version.
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Ralph Gerlich, Germany
NOWSMART 386-OS
2003
DOS Like 32BIT "GUI" OS.
IBM PC compatibles
LightCone, Japan
SILK
2003c
Scout in Linux Kernel. Linux kernel module which transforms a standard Linux OS into Scout.
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University of Princeton, USA
Quark
2003
Object Oriented 32 bit operating system. It aims to be a complete multitasking kernel.
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QuickRAM Operating System
2003
Portable media based operating system. It loads itself into RAM and allows you to do system maintenance related tasks.
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OpenEmbedded
2003
Or Yocto Project. Build automation framework and cross-compile environment used to create Linux distributions for embedded devices.
BeaglBoard, Gunstix, Nvidia Tegra
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ReactOS (34 versions)
2003
Open source OS designed to be binary compatible with Windows NT and its variants (Windows XP, Windows 2000, etc.); currently in development phase.
IA-32, x86-64, ARM
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Windows Server (11 versions)
2003
Brand name for a group of server operating systems released by Microsoft.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
REAL/NG
2003
Was IMS' attempt to create the "Next Generation" of REAL/32, also named "REAL/32 for the internet age". REAL/NG promised "increased range of hardware from PCs to x86 multi-processor server systems".
IA-32, x86-64
Intelligent Micro Software, UK
WISDOM
2003
32-bit operating system with a primitive shell implemented.
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University of Madras, India
IBOX
2003
"Modular" operating system for the x86 desktop. The main goals of this os are: Portability, Stability, Security, and Customizable.
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XTS-400
2003
Multilevel secure computer operating system.
x86
BAE Systems, UK
Fedora (23 versions)
2003
Desktop, workstation, server, cloud OS.
x86-32, x86-64, armhf, aarch64, pc64le, mips64el, mipsel, s390x, RISC-V, ppc64
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Nanos
2003c
Nanos is a protected mode nanokernel OS for x86 computers. It is written in assembly and assembled with NASM.
x86
Peter Hultqvist, Sweden
ISOS
2003
Very simple multithreaded OS for the Evaluator-7T board from ARM. It is based on JayOS. It features pre-emptive multi-threading, communication between threads, etc. and hardware drivers.
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Wilhem Meignan, France
JaysOS
2003
"Toy OS" that runs on the Gameboy Advance. It provides preemptive threads, semaphores, condition variables, and message queues.
Nintendo Gamboy Advance
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Midori
2003
Managed code operating system. a possible commercial implementation of the Singularity operating system
IA-32, x86-64, ARM
Microsoft, USA
Jnode
2003
Java New Operating System Design Effort. Written 99% in Java (native compiled), provides own JVM and JIT compiler. Based on GNU Classpath.
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Martin Husted Hartvig, Germany
freeRTOS
2003
Real-time operating system kernel for embedded devices that has been ported to 35 microcontroller platforms. It is distributed under the MIT License.
ARM, Atmel AVR, AVR32, HCS12, MicroBlaze, Cortus, MSP430, PIC, Renesas H8/S, SuperH, RX, x86, 8052, Coldfire, V850, 78K0R, Fujitsu MB9xxx0 series, Nios II, Cortex-R4, TMS570, RM4x
Real Time Engineers, UK
Phoenix-RTOS
2004
Real-time operating system designed for Internet of Things appliances. Successor to the Phoenix operating system.
ARM7, IA-32, eSI-RISC
Phoenix Systems, USA
Pirat-Os
2004
German Language OS Project.
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Dominic Fischer, Switzerland
DragonFly BSD (23 versions)
2004
Free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8.
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CentOS
2004
Linux distribution that provides a free, enterprise-class, community-supported computing platform functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Ubuntu (28 versions)
2004
Free and open-source operating system and Linux distribution based on Debian.
IA-32, AMD64, ARMhf (ARMv7 + VFPv3-D16), ARM64, OWER8 (ppc64el), s390x
Canonical, Ubuntu community, UK
udos (2)
2004c
Micro disk operating system for PC/AT compatibles with legacy floppy drive.
x86
K. Gondow and M. Ohba, Japan
ekkoBSD
2004
Unix-like operating system based on OpenBSD 3.3, also incorporating code from other BSD-like operating systems. Its focus was on security and easy administration.
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OpenWrt
2004
Open source project for embedded operating system based on Linux, primarily used on embedded devices to route network traffic.
ARC, ARM, m68k, MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC, SuperH, x86, x86-64
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LSE/OS
2004c
Research kernel.
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Epita System Laboratory, France
Wombat OS
2004
High-performance virtualized Linux. microkernel OS; usually a real time embedded OS.
x86, ARM and MIPS
National ICT Australia, Australia
Univention Corporate Server
2004
Server operating system derived from Debian GNU/Linux with an integrated management system for the central and cross-platform administration of servers, services, clients, desktops and users as well as virtualized computers operated in UCS.
Intel 386, AMD64
Univention, Germany
Evolution OS
2004c
Real-time networking operating system.
-
Lantronix, USA
Zygomatic
2004
Operating system designed around idiomatic C++ concepts such as RAII, iterators, and streams.
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Express OS
2004
Can execute DOS tasks. Runs from MS-DOS version 7 (Windows 95,98).
x86
Alexander Kobets, Russia
ExtremeXOS
2004
Network operating system used in newer Extreme Networks network switches.
Extreme Networks Network switches
Extreme Networks, USA
Tabos
2004
Tabos is a new operating system based on a modular monolithic kernel with module loading support, using the x86 platform features.
x86
Jan-Michael Brummer, Germany
Dex4U
2004
Fast 32bit pmode operating system for the PC (Intel, AMD, etc.). Everything in this operating system is focused on speed: the architecture, it's avoidance of virtualization, and it is completely written in assembly.
x86
-
FlachsOS
2004c
32-Bit Realtime Operating System.
x86
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Minirighi
2004c
Didactic Linux-like kernel. Multi-threading operating system for IA-32 architecture.
IA-32
Andrea Righi, Italy
KolibriOS
2004
Small open source x86 operating system forked off from MenuetOS.
x86
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FreeSBIE
2004
Live CD based on the FreeBSD.
x86
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KVM
2005>
Kernel-based Virtual Machine. Virtualization infrastructure for the Linux kernel that turns it into a hypervisor.
ARM, IA-64, PowerPC, S/390, x86, x86-64
Qumranet, Open Virtualization Alliance, USA
SchilliX
2005
OpenSolaris based complete open-source operating system.
x86, x86-64
Germany
Mobilinux
2005
Linux kernel operating system targeted to smartphones.
-
MonteVista Software, USA
CapROS
2005
Capability-based Reliable Operating System. Open source operating system. Microkernel EROS successor.
IA-32, ARM9
Strawberry Development Group, USA
Open Enterprise Server
2005
Open Source networking OS by Novell. Can incorporate either SUSE Linux or Novell NetWare as its kernel.
-
Novell, USA
Prex
2005c
Open source, royalty-free, real-time operating system for embedded systems. It is designed and implemented for resource-constrained systems that require predictable timing behavior.
ARM, IA-32, x86
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AirOS
2005>
Operating System for Ubiquiti M Series Products.
Ubiquiti M Series
Ubiquiti Networks, USA
Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs
2005
Thin client operating system based on Windows XP Embedded and is optimized for older, less powerful hardware.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
openSUSE (13 versions)
2005
Formerly SUSE Linux and SuSE Linux Professional, is a Linux distribution sponsored by SUSE Linux GmbH and other companies.
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Orange OS
2005c
Lightweight Operating System. Designed to fit on a floppy.
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Xbox 360 system software
2005
Udateable software and operating system for the Xbox 360.
Microsoft Xbox 360
Microsoft, USA
Enhanced DR-DOS 7.01.0x
2005c
Based on Caldera OpenDOS 7.01.
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z/TPF
2005
z/Architecture extension.
IBM System z
IBM, USA
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z/VSE
2005
Virtual Storage Extended. Latest version of the four decades old DOS lineage, supports 64-bit addresses, multiprocessing, multiprogramming, SNA, TCP/IP, and some virtual machine features in support of Linux workloads.
IBM System z
IBM, USA
Mæmo
2005
Software platform developed by Nokia for smartphones and Internet tablets.
Nokia 770, N800 and N810
Nokia, Finland
ManRiX
2005c
Open source microkernel based operating system with POSIX complience.
-
Manish Regmi, Nepal
DD-WRT
2005
Linux-based firmware for wireless routers and access points.
Linksys routers
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SysPak OS
2005
Microkernel based multiprocessor, multitasking, multithreading operating system for the IBM-PC Intel i386 systems. It is developed in Department of Computer Science of Bahahuddin Zakariya University, Multan Pakistan.
i386
Bahahuddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan
DesktopBSD
2005
Unix-derivative, desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD.
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Peter Hofer, Daniel Seuffert, Austria
Kylin
2006
Chines operating system. The first versions were based on FreeBSD and were intended for use by the Chinese military and other government organizations.
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National University of Defense Technology, China
pfsense
2006
Open source firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD.
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Rubicon Communications, USA
µ-velOSity
2006
Lightweight microkernel.
-
Green Hills Software, USA
TrueOS
2006
Previously known as PC-BSD. Unix-like, server-oriented operating system built upon the most recent releases of FreeBSD-CURRENT.
amd64, armv7
iXsystems, USA
CLIP OS
2006
Multilevel secured operating system.
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ANSSI, France
uDOS (1)
2006c
Free operating system built on the FreeDOS kernel with DJGPP.
x86
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Linux Mint
2006
Community-driven Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu that strives to be a "modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.
IA-32, x86-64
Clément Lefèbvre, Jamie Boo Birse, Kendall Weaver,, International
Windows Vista (2 versions)
2006
Aka Windows NT 6.0
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
ES
2006
Computer operating system developed originally by Nintendo and since 2008 by Esrille. It is open source and runs natively on x86 platforms.
-
Nintendo, Japan
Xv6
2006
Teaching operating system developed in the summer of 2006 for MIT's operating systems course.
-
MIT, USA
Zeroshell (2 versions)
2006
Small open-source Linux distribution for servers and embedded systems which aims to provide network services.
IA-32
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FDOS
2006c
Uses only 30K code.
-
Frizzz, Germany
SymbOS
2006
SYmbiosis Multitasking Based Operating System. GUI based modern micro-kernel OS for x86, ARM and PowerPC processors. Used and developed further at Technical University of Munich.
Amstrad, Z80 microcomputers
Miray Software, UK
iS-DOS Chic
2006
IS-DOS vesion for Nemo KAY.
Nemo KAY
Russia
BCOS
2006c
Practical distributed operating system, initially aimed at 80x86/PC compatible computers. In general BCOS makes a group of computers connected by a network (a cluster of computers) behave like a single computer with multiple users.
x86
-
FMI/OS
2006c
Flexible Microkernel Infrastructure/Operating System. Successor of VSTa.
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BKUNIX
2006
Based on the LSX kernel ( UNIX version V6).
Elektronika BK-0010
Sergey Vakulenko and Leonid Bruchis, Russia
NuttX
2007
Real-time operating system with an emphasis on standards compliance and small footprint. Scalable from 8-bit to 32-bit microcontroller environments, the primary governing standards in NuttX are POSIX and ANSI standards
ARM, AVR, AVR32, HCS12, LM32, MIPS, RISC-V, SuperH, Xtensa XL6, Z80
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leJOS
2007
Firmware replacement for Lego Mindstorms programmable bricks.
Lego Mindstorms
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Access Linux Platform
2007
Discontinued open-source software based operating system, once referred to as a "next-generation version of the Palm OS," for mobile devices developed and marketed by Access Co.
Palm
Access, Japan
Singularity (2 versions)
2007
Research operating system written mostly in managed code (C#).
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Microsoft, USA
gOS
2007
Aka good OS. Ubuntu-based Linux distribution.
x86, Netbooks
Good OS LLC, USA
DRYOS (1 versions)
2007
Real-time operating system made by Canon and is used in their latest digital cameras and camcorders.
Digital cameras
Canon, Japan
Windows Home Server
2007
Based on Windows Server 2003.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
MotoMagx
2007
Linux kernel-based mobile operating system.
-
Motorola, USA
Openmoko Linux
2007
Operating system for smartphones developed by the Openmoko project. It is based on the Ångström distribution, comprising various pieces of free software.
Smartphones
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Oracle Linux (5 versions)
2007
Linux distribution packaged and freely distributed by Oracle. Uses a version-naming convention identical to that of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
IA-32, x86-64, SPARC, ARM64
Oracle, USA
Coyotos
2007
Microkernel EROS successor, goal: be first formally verified OS.
x86
University Johns-Hopkins, The Éros Group, USA
Apple TV
2007
Digital media player and microconsole.
Apple TV
Apple, USA
Croquet
2007
Software development kit (SDK) for use in developing collaborative virtual world applications.
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Alan Kay, Julian Lombardi, Mark P. McCahill, Andreas Raab, David P. Reed, David A. Smith, USA
iOS (1) (29 versions)
2007
Formerly iPhone OS. Mobile operating system created and developed by Apple exclusively for its hardware.
Apple iPhone
Apple, USA
iriver clix OS
2007
Operating system for media player.
-
iriver, Korea
Femto OS
2007
Very concise portable real time - preemptive operating system (RTOS) for embedded microcontrollers.
AVR
-
MidnightBSD
2007
Forked from FreeBSD 6.1.
amd64 and i386
-
Bharat Operating System Solutions
2007
Indian Linux distribution developed by C-DAC, Chennai in order to benefit the usage of Free/Open Source Software in India.
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C-DAC/NRCFOSS, India
Paxym FreeBSD
2007
BSD based OS for Cavium Octeon MIPS architecture processors.
Cavium Octeon
Paxym, USA
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miosix
2008
Operating system kernel designed to run on 32bit microcontrollers.
STM32, efm32 e LPC2000
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Gargoyle
2008
Free OpenWrt-based Linux distribution for a range of wireless routers based on Broadcom or Atheros chipsets.
MIPS
-
Plan B
2008
Distributed OS derived from Plan 9 and Off++ microkernel.
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Universidad Rev Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Genode (4 versions)
2008
Operating system framework for microkernels. First conceived as the Bastei OS Architecture.
ARM, RISC-V, x86, x86-64
Genode Labs, Germany
SharpOS
2008
Computer operating system based on the .NET Framework and related programming language C#.
x86
-
HeartOS
2008
HeartOS Posix-based Hard Real-Time Operating System.
x86, PowerPC, ARM
DDC-I, USA
OpenSolaris (3 versions)
2008
Discontinued, open source computer operating system based on Solaris.
x86, x86_64, ARM, PowerPC, SPARC, IBM System z
Sun Microsystems, USA
Android (25 versions)
2008
Operating system for mobile devices. It consists of Android Runtime (userland) with Linux (kernel), with its Linux kernel modified to add drivers for mobile device hardware and to remove unused Vanilla Linux drivers.
32- and 64-bit ARM, x86 and x86-64
Google, USA
Red Star OS
2008
North Korean Linux distribution. Prior to its release, computers in North Korea typically used Red Hat Linux and Windows XP
i386 (x86), ARM
Korea Computer Center, North Korea
Minos (2)
2008~
Small real time operating systema applied to an onboard project for General Aviation. . The focus of the operating system is predictability, stability, safety and simplicity.
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ETHZ, Switzerland
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BareMetal
2008
Exokernel-based single address space operating system.
-
Return Infinity, USA
Nexenta OS
2008
Discontinued computer operating system based on OpenSolaris and Ubuntu that runs on IA-32- and x86-64-based systems. Replaced by Illumian in 2011.
i386, AMD64, SPARC
Nexenta Systems, USA
FunkOS
2009
Real-time operating system developed for a variety of microcontroller architectures.
AVR, MSP430, Cortex-M3
-
webOS
2009
See LG webOS.
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Palm, USA
Windows 7
2009
Aka Windows NT 6.1. Code name Blackcomb and Vienna.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
Chrome OS
2009
Designed to work exclusively with web applications. The Chrome OS source code was released in 2009, under the BSD license as Chromium OS.
-
Google, USA
Chromium OS
2009
Open source operating system development version of Chrome OS. Both operating systems are based on the Linux kernel.
-
Google, USA
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CooCox CoOS
2009
Embedded real-time multi-task OS specially for ARM Cortex M series. Originally a project launched by Embest Info. Tech. Co. along with Wuhan University of Technology
ARM-Cortex,STM32, NXP LPC1000, TI LM3S8962, Nuvoton NU1xx,Holtek HT32
CooCox, China
OPhone
2009
Mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel. It is based on technologies initially developed by Android Inc.
ARM, MIPS, Power Architecture, x86
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Android-x86
2009
Unofficial initiative to port Google's Android mobile operating system to run on devices powered by AMD and Intel x86 processors, rather than RISC-based ARM chips.
x86
Google, USA
EOS (3)
2009c
Extensible Operating System. Fully programmable and highly modular, Linux-based network operation system, using familiar industry standard CLI. Based on Fedora.
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Arista Networks, USA
Astra Linux
2009
Russian Linux-based computer operating system developed to meet the needs of the Russian army, other armed forces and intelligence agencies.
x86-64, ARM, IBM System/390, System z
RusBitTech, Russia
Symbian platform
2009
Successor to Symbian OS.
-
Symbian, UK
osFree
2009
Free Open Source software operating system development project, aiming to replace eventually all OS/2 subsystems with Open source analogues.
-
-
Palm webOS 1
2009
Mobile Operating system based on an Linux core.
Palm Pré, Palm Pixi
Palm, USA
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TMaxOS
2009
South Korean OS based on Windows.
-
TmaxSoft, Korea
LightDOS
2010s
Free operating system based on the FreeDOS kernel.
x86
Corbin Davenport, USA
Windows Azure
2010
Microsoft Azure (formerly Windows Azure). Cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
GhostBSD
2010
Unix-like operating system based on TrueOS with Xfce and MATE as its default desktop environments.
-
-
GIS
2010s
Real-Time Operating System especially developed for hard real-time safety critical avionics applications.
-
TUBITAK Informatics, Turkey
GLaDOS
2010s
Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System. Free and open-source operating system based on FreeDOS 1.0, developed as a replacement for Microsoft DOS (MS-DOS).
x86
Corbin Davenport, USA
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PureDarwin
2010s
Community project to make Darwin more usable (some people think of it as the informal successor to OpenDarwin.
PowerPC
-
OpenIndiana
2010
Operates under the illumos Foundation. Uses the illumos kernel, which is a derivative of OS/Net, which is basically an OpenSolaris/Solaris kernel with the bulk of the drivers, core libraries, and basic utilities.
x86-64
Sun Microsystems, USA
OpenNAS
2010s
Storage appliance based on NAS4Free and FreeBSD.
x86-64
France
Windows Phone (5 versions)
2010
Windows Phone mobile client operating system.
Windows Phone
Microsoft, USA
Dyson
2010s
General-purpose operating system. Debian derivative using the illumos kernel, libc, and SMF init system (formerly OpenSolaris).
x86-64
France
HP webOS
2010
Linux kernel-based multitasking operating system for smart devices such as smart TVs and it has been used as a mobile operating system.
-
Hewlett-Packard, USA
Embkernel
2010s
Aim of embKernel is to produce an unified C++ source for embedded devices.
ARM Cortex M
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ICOS
2010s
Aka Fastpath. Off-the-shelf (Linux based) network operating system on x86-based switches.
x86 switches
Broadcom, USA
illumos
2010
Contains original Unix (SVR4) code derived from the OpenSolaris (discontinued by Oracle in favor of Solaris 11 Express).
-
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Replicant
2010
Free operating system (OS) based on the Android mobile platform that aims to replace all proprietary Android components with free-software counterparts.
-
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CraftyOS
2010s
Free operating system based on the Cpcdos OSx kernel, written only with CpcdosC+ language.
x86
Sebastien Favier, France
ESXDOS
2010s
Operating system for ZX Spectrum disk interfaces DivIDE and DivMMC.
ZX Spectrum
-
MaheshaBSD
2010
Unix-like BSD based operating system.
-
Juraj Sipos, Slovakia
Fantome OS
2010s
Secured operating for the ARCANE smartphone.
Proprietary, smartphones
Fantome, Hong-Kong
vEOS
2010s
Platform release of EOS that is supported on Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft Azure and other public clouds.
-
Arista, USA
Switch Light OS
2010c
Complete SDN operating system based on Open Network Linux (ONL), an open source effort within the Open Compute Project.
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Big Switch Networks, USA
MeeGo
2010
From merger of Maemo & Moblin.
ARM and x86
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NeoKylin
2010
China Standard Software and the National University of Defense Technology strategic partnership to launch a linux version ok Kylin intended for use by government offices, national defense, energy and other sectors of the Chinese economy.
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China Standard Software, China
Jibbed
2010s
Bootable live CD based on the NetBSD Operating System.
x86-64
Germany
9front
2011
Fork of Plan 9. Started to remedy a perceived lack of devoted development resources inside Bell Labs, and has accumulated various fixes and improvements.
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Bell Labs, USA
Windows Home Server 2011
2011
Based on Windows Server 2008 R2.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
HelenOS
2011
Research and experimental operating system. Based on a preemptible microkernel design.
IA-32, AMD64, IA-64, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC V9
Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Ubuntu Touch
2011
Also known as Ubuntu Phone. Mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system that was originally developed by Canonical and is now being developed by the UBports community.
ARM
Canonical, UK
MartUX
2011
OpenIndiana/Illumos based Solaris distribution for reviving SPARC hardware support.
Sun SPARC
Martin Bochnig, Germany
Bada
2011
Operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers.
Smartphones
Samsung Electronics, Korea
DioneOS
2011
Multitasking preemptive, real-time operating system. The system is designed for Texas Instruments MSP430x microcontrollers.
TI MSP430, MSP430x
EleSoftRom, Poland
LibreCMC
2012
GNU/Linux-libre distribution for computers with minimal resources, such as the Ben Nanonote, ath9k-based Wi-Fi routers, and other hardware with emphasis on free software.
MIPS
USA
Windows 8 (1 versions)
2012
Aka Windows NT 6.2. Windows 8 introduced major changes to the operating system's platform and user interface to improve its user experience on tablets.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
Goobuntu
2012
Linux distribution that Google uses internally.
-
Google, USA
QubesOS
2012
Security-focused desktop operating system that aims to provide security through isolation.
x86-64
Invisible Things Lab, Poland
eChronos
2012
Small, versatile, high-assurance real-time operating system (OS) for embedded micro-controllers.
ARM Cortex-M3 - M7
Breakaway Consulting, Australia
HTCondor
2012
Formerly Condows. Renamed in 2012 after trademark law issues. Open-source high-throughput computing software framework for coarse-grained distributed parallelization of computationally intensive tasks
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University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
EMUI
2012
Mobile operating system for Huawey smartphones. Formerly Emotion UI.
-
Huawey, China
Intelligent Network Platform
2012
Software platform for the creation of sophisticated network equipment that accelerates, analyzes, and secures the flood of traffic for next—generation networks.
-
Wind River, Intel, USA
NAS4Free
2012
Open source operating system for embedded devices that provides the NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server. See XigmaNAS.
x86
Netherlands
DexOS
2012
32-bit operating system written in x86 assembly.
32-bit x86 ARM
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JabirOS
2012
Independent operating system, forked from FreeBSD 10.
x86
Iran
Tizen
2012
Earlier called LiMo Platform. Operating system based on the Linux kernel, a project within the Linux Foundation and is governed by a Technical Steering Group (TSG) while controlled by Samsung and backed by Intel. Tizen works on a wide range of Samsung devices including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, PCs and wearable.
ARM, ARM64 x86, and x86-64
Samsung Electronics, The Linux Foundation, Korea
Sailfish OS
2013
General purpose Linux distribution used commonly as a mobile operating system combining the Linux kernel for a particular hardware platform.
32-bit ARM and 64-bit x86
Jolla, Finland
Mongoose OS
2013>
Open source Operating System for Internet of Things.
ARM, Xtensa
Cesanta, Ireland
PonyOS
2013
Hobby Unix-like operating system based on ToaruOS.
-
-
Ubuntu Kylin
2013
Canonical agreement with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China to release an Ubuntu-based Linux OS.
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Canonical, UK
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Xbox One system software
2013
Operating system for the eighth-generation home video game console, Xbox One. It is a Windows-based operating system using the Hyper-V virtual machine monitor.
Microsoft Xbox 360
Microsoft, USA
Firefox OS
2013
Open-source operating system – made for smartphones, tablet computers and smart TVs. Designed by Mozilla and external contributors.
-
Mozilla, USA
TempleOS
2013
Formerly J Operating System, SparrowOS and LoseThos. Biblical-themed lightweight operating system designed to be the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible.
x86-64
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OSv
2013
Cloud computing focused computer operating system. It is a special-purpose operating system built to run as a guest on top of a virtual machine, thus it does not include drivers for bare-metal hardware.
x86-64 using the KVM, Xen, VMware, and VirtualBox hypervisors
Cloudius Systems, Israel
BlackBerry 10
2013
Proprietary mobile operating system for the BlackBerry line of smartphones.
Blackberry
BlackBerry, Canada
MIROS
2014c
Hybrid real-time energy-efficient operating system for the resource-constrained wireless sensor nodes.
-
Wuhan University, Blaise Pascal University, China/France
ONL
2014
Open Network Linux. Linux distribution for open hardware switches based on Debian.
-
-
Ghost OS
2014
Free and open-source operating system for personal computers.
x86
-
COS (8)
2014
China Operating System. Linux kernel-based mobile operating system developed in China mainly targeting mobile devices, tablets and set top boxes. Developed by the Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) together with Shanghai Liantong Network Communications Technology to compete with foreign operating systems like iOS and Android.
ARM
Liantong Network Communications Technology, China
FBOSS
2014
Facebook Open Switching System. Linux-based operating system for Wedge switch.
-
Facebook, USA
Bitrig
2014
OpenBSD-based operating system targeted exclusively at the amd64 and armv7 platforms.
amd64 and armv7
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Windows 10 (10 versions)
2015
Aka Windows NT 10. Series of personal computer operating systems produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows NT family of operating systems.
IBM PC compatibles
Microsoft, USA
tvOS (13 versions)
2015
Operating system developed by Apple for the fourth-generation and later Apple TV digital media player.
Apple TV
Apple, USA
CNOS
2015
Cloud Network Operating System.
-
Lenovo, China
OpenSwitch
2015
Open source network operating system that originated with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), is now under the wing of the Linux Foundation.
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Hewlett-Packard, USA
OPNsense
2015
Open source, FreeBSD-based firewall and routing software developed by Deciso, a company in the Netherlands that makes hardware and sells support packages for OPNsense.
i386, x86-64
Deciso, Netherlands
Redox
2015
Written in Rust.
-
-
Apple Watch
2015
Operating system for the Apple Watch.
Apple Watch
Apple, USA
GraniteOS (2015 versions)
Ultra securized OS for Archos' GranitePhone derived from Android.
Smartphones
Sikur, USA
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TargetOS
2015c
Full-featured real-time operating system designed specifically for embedded applications.
ARM, Cortus, Freescale ColdFire, PowerPC
Blunk Microsystems, USA
Kaspersky OS
2015
Partially POSIX-compatible microkernel operating system.
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Kapesky Lab, Russia
watchOS (12 versions)
2015
Mobile operating system of the Apple Watch.
Apple Watch
Apple, USA
Fuchsia
2016
Capability-based, real-time, operating system (RTOS) scalable to universal devices, in early development, from the tiniest embedded hardware, wristwatches, tablets to the largest personal computers. Unlike Chrome OS and Android, it is not based on the Linux kernel, but instead began on a new microkernel called "Zircon", derived from "Little Kernel".
Arch64, x86-64
Google, USA
LEDE
2016
Linux Embedded Development Environment. Fork of the OpenWrt project and shared many of the same goals.
-
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LineageOS
2016
Free and open-source operating system for set-top boxes, smartphones and tablet computers, based on the Android mobile platform.
-
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YunOS
2016
Mobile operating system.
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Alibaba Group, China
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Zephyr
2016
Small real-time operating system for connected, resource-constrained devices supporting multiple architectures and released under the Apache License 2.0.
ARM (Cortex-Mx), x86, ARC, RISC-V, Nios II, Xtensa
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Netvisor ONE
2016c
Open, secure and programable next-generation Network OS.
Network switches
Pluribus Network, USA
Ruff
2016
IoT operating system, using JavaScript as its programing language.
ARM, MIPS, x86
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PostmarketOS
2017
Free and open-source operating system under development primarily for smartphones, based on the Alpine Linux distribution.
ARM, ARM64, x86, x86-64
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AliOS Things
2017
Open-source implementation of operating system (OS) for Internet of Things (IoT).
-
Alibaba, China
TizenRT
2017
Lightweight RTOS-based platform to support low-end IoT devices.
ARM
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ToaruOS
2017
Japanese roughly equivalent to 'a certain'. Hobby operating system and kernel developed largely independently (notably contrary to most modern OSes.
x86
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ArcOS
2018
Industry's First Internet-Scale, Independent Network Operating System.
-
Arrcus, USA
Mellanox Onyx
2018c
Successor to MLNX-OS. High performance, flexible and cloud-scale switch operating system, designed for the demands of next-generation data centers.
-
Mellanox, USA
OnixOS
2020s
OnixOS Arch is a Linux-based and open source distribution.
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USA
C64OS
2022
Operating system expansion for the Commodore 64 that gives it a whole new set of sophisticated tools with a powerful and unified user interface.
Microcomputers, C64
OpCoders, Canada


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