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  2. List of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Business Operating System (BOS) – developed to be ported across microcomputers. EOS – developed by ETA Systems for use in their ETA-10 line of supercomputers. EMBOS – developed by Elxsi for use on their mini-supercomputers. GCOS – a proprietary operating system originally developed by General Electric.

  3. Operating system - Wikipedia

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    Android is a partially open-source operating system closely based on Linux and has become the most widely used operating system by users, due to its popularity on smartphones and, to a lesser extent, embedded systems needing a GUI, such as "smart watches, automotive dashboards, airplane seatbacks, medical devices, and home appliances". [140]

  4. Comparison of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    The article "Usage share of operating systems" provides a broader, and more general, comparison of operating systems that includes servers, mainframes and supercomputers. Because of the large number and variety of available Linux distributions, they are all grouped under a single entry; see comparison of Linux distributions for a detailed ...

  5. Comparison of open-source operating systems - Wikipedia

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    snapshots, venti archival storage, per-process namespace, user-mountable file systems AROS: Syllable: Unix 64-bit, journaling, extended file attributes: Inferno: No No Unix-like, no root No per-process namespace, user-mountable file systems FreeRTOS: eCos: RTEMS: HelenOS: No No No No No E/OS Yes Yes Unix Yes No Name RAID quota Resource access ...

  6. Linux - Wikipedia

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    A Linux-based system is a modular Unix-like operating system, deriving much of its basic design from principles established in Unix during the 1970s and 1980s. Such a system uses a monolithic kernel, the Linux kernel, which handles process control, networking, access to the peripherals, and file systems.

  7. List of Apple operating systems - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of operating systems released by Apple Inc. As of 2023, there are six supported software platforms: iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, macOS and visionOS. Prior to the introduction of the Macintosh in early 1984, Apple had several operating systems for the Apple II series, Apple SOS for the Apple III series, and Lisa OS and ...

  8. History of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Because of its utility, it inspired many and later became one of the roots of the free software movement and open-source software. Numerous operating systems were based upon it including Minix, GNU/Linux, and the Berkeley Software Distribution. Apple's macOS is also based on Unix via NeXTSTEP [11] and FreeBSD.

  9. Timeline of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    1953. DYSEAC - an early machine capable of distributing computing. 1955. General Motors Operating System made for IBM 701 [2] MIT 's Tape Director operating system made for UNIVAC 1103 [3][4] 1956. GM-NAA I/O for IBM 704, based on General Motors Operating System.