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Year
Description Platform Company Link
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
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
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
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
NAS4Free
2012
Open source operating system for embedded devices that provides the NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server. See XigmaNAS.
x86
Netherlands
NASA/LANGLEY
1960s
NASA OS for CDC computers. Replaced by KRONOS 2.1.
-
NASA, USA
NASA/HOUSTON
1960s
NASA OS for CDC computers. Replaced by KRONOS 2.1.
-
NASA, USA
NASOS
1990s
Not Another Scheme OS.
-
John Kozak, UK
Native CPC-OS
1984
Amstrad CPC native OS.
Amstrad CPC
Amstrad, UK
NCOS (1)
1974<
Nonconcurrent OS. Tape or disk based OS for Univac 9200 & 9300.
UNIVAC 9200 & 9300
USA
-
NCOS (2)
1990s
Graphical user interface-based operating system developed for use in Oracle's Network Computers.
Oracle Network computers
Acorn Computers, UK
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
ND-70
1970
New Dispatcher. New operating system for the BESM-6 computer. Used in spacecraft flight control centers.
BESM-6
ITMiVT RAS, Russia
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
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
-
NEMIGA OS
1980s
Soviet RT-11 clone.
Nemiga PK 588
Russia
-
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.
-
China Standard Software, China
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
-
Netvisor ONE
2016c
Open, secure and programable next-generation Network OS.
Network switches
Pluribus Network, USA
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
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
Newark
1978>
Early version of Eden developed for the VAX environment. The name was chosen because it was "far from Eden."
DEC VAX
USA
-
Newcastle Connection
1980s
Network OS layer for UNIX systems providing transparent distributed access.
-
UK
Newcastle Recursive VM
1974<
Virtual Machine system developed on a Burroughs 1700.
Burroughs 1700
USA
-
NewDos/80
1980
Third-party OS for Tandy's TRS-80 personal computers.
Tandy TRS-80
Apparat, 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
Newton OS
1993
Discontinued operating system for the Apple Newton PDAs.
Apple MessagePad
Apple, 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
NeXTSTEP
1988
Unix-based OS based on the Mach microkernel.
NeXT
NeXT, USA
NI Linux Real-Time
2000s
Linux-based real-time OS.
National Instruments CompactRIO controllers
National Instruments, USA
NIDOS
1984<
Operating system for the Nixdorf 8890.
Nixdorf 8890
USA
-
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
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
NonStop OS
1976>
Message-based operating system designed for fault tolerance.
Tandem Computers, HP's NonStop line of Itanium servers
Tandem, USA
NORD
1990s
Disk operating system.
Elektronika BK-0010
Russia
NORTON-BK
1990s
Simplest operating system for the Soviet personal computers BK-0010.
Elektronika BK-0010
Russia
NOS (1) (3 versions)
1976
Network Operating System. Operating system with time-sharing capabilities. Based on KRONOS.
CDC CYBER, CDC 6000
Control Data, USA
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
NovaDOS
1980s
CP/M 2.2 with NovaDOS as BDOS replacement.
Altair
USA
Novell "Corsair"
1993
User interface for NetWare, was a project run by Novell corporation's Advanced Technology Group (ATG).
-
Novell, USA
Novell "Exposé"
1994
Outsourcing project on a technology demo.
-
Novell, 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
Novell "SuperNOS"
1995<
Never released merge of NetWare and UnixWare.
-
Novell, USA
Novell DOS (1 versions)
1991
Single-user, multi-tasking system derived from DR DOS.
IBM PC compatibles
Digital Research, 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
NOW
1990s
Berkeley Network of Workstations. OS allowing inexpensive workstations to work in cluster, harnessing their resources to match a large computer.
-
U.C. Berkeley, USA
NOWSMART 386-OS
2003
DOS Like 32BIT "GUI" OS.
IBM PC compatibles
LightCone, Japan
NSMOS
1980s
Version of MOSIX for National Semiconductor VR32 systems.
National Semiconductor VR32
USA
-
NSW
1975
National Software Works. Descendent of RSEXEC.
-
Jonathan Postel, USA
-
NTDIOS
1990s
Network Disk Operating System. Working 32-bit, multitasking, OS for x86-based computers, running in protected mode.
x86
NTDIOS, France
NUCLEUS
1974<
Operating System for GEC Computers.
GEC Computers
GEC Computers, UK
-
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
NUFR
2000s
Real-Time Operating System.
ARM (Cortex-M0,-M3,-M4), MSP430, MSP430X (16- and 20-bit models)
-
Nut/OS
2000s
Open source operating system for Ethernut boards.
AVR, AVR32, ARM7, ARM9, Cortex-M3
Ethernut community, Germany
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
-
NZ-COM
1980s
Z-System based on CP/M 2.2
Altair
Alpha Systems, USA


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