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  2. Operating system - Wikipedia

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    A library operating system (libOS) is one in which the services that a typical operating system provides, such as networking, are provided in the form of libraries and composed with a single application and configuration code to construct a unikernel: [32] a specialized (only the absolute necessary pieces of code are extracted from libraries ...

  3. List of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    JNode (Java New Operating System Design Effort), written 99% in Java (native compiled), provides own JVM and JIT compiler. Based on GNU Classpath. [37] [38] JX Java operating system that focuses on a flexible and robust operating system architecture developed as an open source system by the University of Erlangen. KERNAL (default OS on ...

  4. Comparison of user features of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and some operating systems attempting to be compatible with MS-DOS, are sometimes referred to as "DOS" (which is also the generic acronym for disk operating system).

  5. Comparison of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    In some operating systems there is OS code permanently present in a contiguous region of memory addressable by unprivileged code; in IBM systems this is typically referred to as the nucleus. The nucleus typically contains both code that requires special privileges and code that can run in an unprivileged state.

  6. Timeline of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Pick operating system; SIPROS 66 (Simultaneous Processing Operating System) [6] THE multiprogramming system (Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven) development; TSOS (later VMOS) 1966 DOS/360 (IBM's Disk Operating System) GEORGE 1 & 2 for ICT 1900 series; Mod 1 [7] Mod 2 [8] Mod 8 [9] MS/8 (Richard F. Lary's DEC PDP-8 system) MSOS (Mass Storage ...

  7. List of Unix systems - Wikipedia

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    After the release of Version 10, the Unix research team at Bell Labs turned its focus to Plan 9 from Bell Labs, a distinct operating system that was first released to the public in 1993. All versions of BSD from its inception up to 4.3BSD-Reno are based on Research Unix, with versions starting with 4.4 BSD and Net/2 instead becoming Unix-like.

  8. Comparison of open-source operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Operating system Mandatory access control Software executable space protection Operating system-level virtualization Virtualisation Userspace protection Others Linux: SELinux, AppArmor [Note 1] Exec Shield, [Note 1] PaX [Note 1] Chroot, namespace and cgroups, [Note 2] Linux-VServer, [Note 1] OpenVZ [Note 1] KVM: IPFilter, Iptables: grsecurity ...

  9. List of Microsoft operating systems - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Microsoft written and published operating systems. For the codenames that Microsoft gave their operating systems , see Microsoft codenames . For another list of versions of Microsoft Windows, see, List of Microsoft Windows versions .