List of operating systems
This is a list of operating systems. Computer operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. Criteria for inclusion is notability, as shown either through an existing Wikipedia article or citation to a reliable source.
Proprietary
Acorn Computers
- Arthur
- ARX
- MOS
- RISC iX
- RISC OS
Amiga Inc.
- AmigaOS
- *AmigaOS 1.0-3.9
- * AmigaOS 4
- Amiga Unix
Amstrad
- AMSDOS
- Contiki
- CP/M 2.2
- CP/M Plus
- SymbOS
Apple Inc.
- Apple II family
- * Apple DOS
- * Apple Pascal
- * ProDOS
- * GS/OS
- * GNO/ME
- *Contiki
- Apple III
- * Apple SOS
- Apple Lisa
- Apple Macintosh
- * Classic Mac OS
- * A/UX
- * Copland
- * MkLinux
- * Pink
- * Rhapsody
- * macOS
- ** macOS Server
- Apple Network Server
- * IBM AIX
- Apple MessagePad
- * Newton OS
- iPhone and iPod Touch
- *iOS
- iPad
- *iPadOS
- Apple Watch
- * watchOS
- Apple TV
- * tvOS
- Embedded operating systems
- * A/ROSE
- * iPod software
- * Unnamed NetBSD variant for Airport Extreme and Time Capsule
Apollo Computer
- Domain/OS – One of the first network-based systems. Run on Apollo/Domain hardware. Later bought by Hewlett-Packard.
Atari
- Atari DOS
- Atari TOS
- Atari MultiTOS
- Contiki
BAE Systems
- XTS-400
Be Inc.
- BeOS
- * BeIA
- * BeOS r5.1d0
- ** magnussoft ZETA
Bell Labs
- Unix
- * UNIX Time-Sharing System v1
- * UNIX Time-Sharing System v2
- * UNIX Time-Sharing System v3
- * UNIX Time-Sharing System v4
- * UNIX Time-Sharing System v5
- * UNIX Time-Sharing System v6
- ** MINI-UNIX
- ** PWB/UNIX
- *** USG
- **** CB Unix
- * UNIX Time-Sharing System v7
- ** Unix System III
- ** Unix System IV
- ** Unix System V
- *** Unix System V Releases 2.0, 3.0, 3.2, 4.0, and 4.2
- * UNIX Time-Sharing System v8
- * UNIX TIme-Sharing System v9
- * UNIX Time-Sharing System v10
- BESYS
- Plan 9 from Bell Labs
- Inferno
Burroughs Corporation, Unisys
- Burroughs MCP
Commodore International
- GEOS
- *AmigaOS
- **AROS Research Operating System
- ***Geoworks
Control Data Corporation
- Chippewa Operating System
- * MACE
- ** Kronos
- *** NOS
- **** NOS/BE NOS Batch Environment
- **** NOS/VE NOS Virtual Environment
- * SCOPE
- * SIPROS
- EP/IX
Convergent Technologies
- Convergent Technologies Operating System – later acquired by Unisys
Cromemco
- Cromemco DOS – a Disk Operating system compatible with CP/M
- Cromix – a multitasking, multi-user, Unix-like OS for Cromemco microcomputers with Z80A and/or 68000 CPU
Data General
- AOS for 16-bit Data General Eclipse computers and AOS/VS for 32-bit Eclipses, MP/AOS for microNOVA-based computers
- DG/UX
- RDOS Real-time Disk Operating System, with variants: RTOS and DOS
Datapoint
- CTOS Cassette Tape Operating System for the Datapoint 2200
- DOS Disk Operating System for the Datapoint 2200, 5500, and 1100
DDC-I, Inc.
- Deos – Time & Space Partitioned RTOS, Certified to DO-178B, Level A since 1998
- HeartOS – POSIX-based Hard Real-Time Operating System
Digital Research, Inc.
- CP/M
- * CP/M CP/M for Intel 8080/8085 and Zilog Z80
- ** Personal CP/M, a refinement of CP/M
- ** CP/M Plus with BDOS 3.0
- * CP/M-68K CP/M for Motorola 68000
- * CP/M-8000 CP/M for Zilog Z8000
- * CP/M-86 CP/M for Intel 8088/8086
- ** CP/M-86 Plus
- ** Personal CP/M-86
- * MP/M Multi-user version of CP/M-80
- ** MP/M II
- * MP/M-86 Multi-user version of CP/M-86
- ** MP/M 8-16, a dual-processor variant of MP/M for 8086 and 8080 CPUs.
- * Concurrent CP/M, the successor of CP/M-80 and MP/M-80
- * Concurrent CP/M-86, the successor of CP/M-86 and MP/M-86
- ** Concurrent CP/M 8-16, a dual-processor variant of Concurrent CP/M for 8086 and 8080 CPUs.
- * Concurrent CP/M-68K, a variant for the 68000
- DOS
- * Concurrent DOS, the successor of Concurrent CP/M-86 with PC-MODE
- ** Concurrent PC DOS, a Concurrent DOS variant for IBM compatible PCs
- ** Concurrent DOS 8-16, a dual-processor variant of Concurrent DOS for 8086 and 8080 CPUs
- ** Concurrent DOS 286
- ** Concurrent DOS XM, a real-mode variant of Concurrent DOS with EEMS support
- ** Concurrent DOS 386
- *** Concurrent DOS 386/MGE, a Concurrent DOS 386 variant with advanced graphics terminal capabilities
- * Concurrent DOS 68K, a port of Concurrent DOS to Motorola 68000 CPUs with DOS source code portability capabilities
- * FlexOS 1.0 – 2.34, a derivative of Concurrent DOS 286
- ** FlexOS 186, a variant of FlexOS for terminals
- ** FlexOS 286, a variant of FlexOS for hosts
- *** Siemens S5-DOS/MT, an industrial control system based on FlexOS
- *** IBM 4680 OS, a POS operating system based on FlexOS
- *** IBM 4690 OS, a POS operating system based on FlexOS
- **** Toshiba 4690 OS, a POS operating system based on IBM 4690 OS and FlexOS
- ** FlexOS 386, a later variant of FlexOS for hosts
- *** IBM 4690 OS, a POS operating system based on FlexOS
- **** Toshiba 4690 OS, a POS operating system based on IBM 4690 OS and FlexOS
- ** FlexOS 68K, a derivative of Concurrent DOS 68K
- * Multiuser DOS, the successor of Concurrent DOS 386
- ** CCI Multiuser DOS
- ** Datapac Multiuser DOS
- *** Datapac System Manager, a derivative of Datapac Multiuser DOS
- ** IMS Multiuser DOS
- *** IMS REAL/32, a derivative of Multiuser DOS
- **** IMS REAL/NG, the successor of REAL/32
- * DOS Plus 1.1 – 2.1, a single-user, multi-tasking system derived from Concurrent DOS 4.1 – 5.0
- * DR-DOS 3.31 – 6.0, a single-user, single-tasking native DOS derived from Concurrent DOS 6.0
- ** Novell PalmDOS 1.0
- ** Novell "Star Trek"
- ** Novell DOS 7, a single-user, multi-tasking system derived from DR DOS
- ** Caldera OpenDOS 7.01
- ** Caldera DR-DOS 7.02 and higher
Digital Equipment Corporation, Tandem Computers, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard
- Batch-11/DOS-11
- Domain/OS – originally Aegis, from Apollo Computer who were bought by HP
- HP-UX
- Multi-Programming Executive – from HP
- NonStop
- OS/8
- RSTS/E – multi-user time-sharing OS for PDP-11s
- RSX-11 – multiuser, multitasking OS for PDP-11s
- RT-11 – single user OS for PDP-11
- TOPS-10 – for the PDP-10
- TENEX – an ancestor of TOPS-20 from BBN, for the PDP-10
- TOPS-20 – for the PDP-10
- Digital UNIX – derived from OSF/1, became HP's Tru64 UNIX
- Ultrix
- VMS – 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
- WAITS – for the PDP-6 and PDP-10
ENEA AB
- OSE – Flexible, small footprint, high-performance RTOS for control processors
Fujitsu
- Towns OS
- XSP
- OS/IV
- MSP
- MSP-EX
General Electric, Honeywell, Bull
- Real-Time Multiprogramming Operating System
- GCOS
- Multics
Google
- Chromium OS is an open source operating system development version of Chrome OS. Both operating systems are based on the Linux kernel.
- * Chrome OS is designed to work exclusively with web applications. Announced on July 7, 2009, Chrome OS is currently publicly available and was released summer 2011. The Chrome OS source code was released on November 19, 2009, under the BSD license as Chromium OS.
- * Container-Optimized OS is an operating system that is optimized for running Docker containers, based on Chromium OS
- Android is an operating system for mobile devices. It consists of Android Runtime with Linux, with its Linux kernel modified to add drivers for mobile device hardware and to remove unused Vanilla Linux drivers.
- gLinux, a Linux distribution that Google uses internally
- Fuchsia is a capability-based, real-time, operating system 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".
Green Hills Software
- INTEGRITY – Reliable Operating system
- INTEGRITY-178B – A DO-178B certified version of INTEGRITY.
- µ-velOSity – A lightweight microkernel.
Harris Corporation
- Vulcan O/S – Proprietary O/S for Harris' Computer Systems
- Harris UNIX – Proprietary UNIX based OS for Harris' Computers
Heathkit, Zenith Data Systems
- HDOS – ran on the H8 and Heath/Zenith Z-89 series
- HT-11 – a modified version of RT-11 that ran on the Heathkit H11
Hewlett-Packard
- HP Multi-Programming Executive – runs on HP 3000 and HP e3000 mini-computers
- HP-UX – runs on HP9000 and Itanium servers
- NonStop OS – runs on HP's NonStop line of Itanium servers
Honeywell
- CP-6
Huawei
- Harmony OS
Intel Corporation
- iRMX – real-time operating system originally created to support the Intel 8080 and 8086 processor families in embedded applications.
- ISIS, ISIS-II – "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. ISIS-II worked with 8 inch floppy disks and had an editor, cross-assemblers, a linker, an object locator, debugger, compilers for PL/M, a BASIC interpreter, etc. and allowed file management through a console.
IBM
On early mainframes: 1400, 701, 704, 709, 7090, 7094
- BESYS – for the IBM 7090
- Compatible Time-Sharing System – developed at MIT's Computation Center for use on a modified IBM 7094
- GM OS & GM-NAA I/O – for the IBM 704
- IBSYS – tape based operating system for IBM 7090 and IBM 7094
- IJMON – A bootable serial I/O monitor for loading programs for the IBM 1400 series
- SHARE Operating System – for the IBM 704 and 709
- University of Michigan Executive System
On S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes
- OS/360 and successors on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes
- *OS/360
- ** PCP
- ** MFT
- ** MFT II
- ** MVT
- * OS/VS,
- ** SVS
- ** OS/VS1
- ** OS/VS2
- *** OS/VS2 R2
- * MVS/SE
- * MVS/SP
- * MVS/XA
- * MVS/ESA
- * OS/390
- * Phoenix/MVS
- * z/OS
- DOS/360 and successors on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes
- * BOS/360
- * TOS/360
- * DOS/360
- ** DOS/360/RJE
- * DOS/VS
- * DOS/VSE
- * VSE/SP
- * VSE/ESA.
- * z/VSE
- CP/CMS and successors on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes
- * CP-40/CMS
- * CP-67/CMS
- * VM/370
- * VM/XA
- * VM/ESA
- * z/VM
- TPF Line on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes
- * ACP
- * TPF
- * z/TPF
- Unix-like on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes
- * AIX/370
- * AIX/ESA
- * OpenSolaris for System z
- * UTS
- * Linux on IBM Z
- Others on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes:
- * BOS/360
- * MTS
- * RTOS/360
- * TOS/360
- * TSS/360
- * MUSIC/SP
- * ORVYL and WYLBUR
On PC and Intel x86 based architectures
- PC DOS, IBM DOS
- * PC DOS 1.x, 2.x, 3.x
- * IBM DOS 4.x, 5.0
- * PC DOS 6.1, 6.3, 7, 2000, 7.10
- OS/2
- * OS/2 1.x
- * OS/2 2.x
- * OS/2 Warp 3
- * OS/2 Warp 4
- * eComStation
- IBM 4680 OS version 1 to 4, a POS operating system based on Digital Research's Concurrent DOS 286 and FlexOS 286 1.xx
- * IBM 4690 OS version 1 to 6.3, a successor to 4680 OS based on Novell's FlexOS 286/FlexOS 386 2.3x
- ** Toshiba 4690 OS version 6.4, a successor to 4690 OS 6.3
- Unix-like on PS/2
- * AIX
On other hardware platforms
- IBM Series/1
- * EDX
- * RPS
- * CPS
- * SerIX
- IBM 1130
- * DMS
- IBM 1800
- * TSX
- * MPX
- IBM 8100
- * DPCX
- * DPPX
- IBM System/3
- * DMS
- IBM System/34, IBM System/36
- * SSP
- IBM System/38
- * CPF
- IBM System/88
- * Stratus VOS
- AS/400, iSeries, System i, Power Systems i Edition
- * OS/400
- * i5/OS
- * IBM i
- UNIX on IBM RT PC
- * AOS
- * AIX
- UNIX on POWER ISA, PowerPC, and Power ISA
- * AIX
- Others
- * Workplace OS
- * K42
- * Dynix
International Computers Limited
- J and MultiJob – for the System 4 series mainframes
- GEORGE 2/3/4 GEneral ORGanisational Environment – used by ICL 1900 series mainframes
- Executive – used on the 1900 and 290x range of minicomputers. A modified version of Executive was also used as part of GEORGE 3 and 4.
- TME – used on the ME29 minicomputer
- ICL VME – including early variants VME/B and VME/2900, appearing on the ICL 2900 Series and Series 39 mainframes, implemented in S3
- VME/K – on early smaller 2900s
Jide
- Remix OS
Lynx Real-time Systems, LynuxWorks, Lynx Software Technologies
- LynxOS
Micrium Inc.
- MicroC/OS-II – small pre-emptive priority based multi-tasking kernel
- MicroC/OS-III – small pre-emptive priority based multi-tasking kernel, with unlimited number of tasks and priorities, and round robin scheduling
Microsoft Corporation
- Xenix
- MSX-DOS
- MS-DOS
- DOS/V
- Windows
- * Windows 1.0
- * Windows 2.0
- * Windows 3.0
- * Windows 3.1x
- * Windows for Workgroups 3.1
- * Windows 3.2
- * Windows for Workgroups 3.11
- * Windows 95
- * Windows 98
- * Windows Millennium Edition
- Windows NT
- *Windows NT 3.1
- * Windows NT 3.5
- * Windows NT 3.51
- * Windows NT 4.0
- * Windows 2000
- * Windows XP
- * Windows Server 2003
- * Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs
- * Windows Vista
- * Windows Azure 2009
- * Windows Home Server
- * Windows Server 2008
- * Windows 7
- * Windows Phone 7
- *Windows Server 2008 R2
- *Windows Home Server 2011
- *Windows Server 2012
- *Windows 8
- *Windows Phone 8
- *Windows 8.1
- * Windows Phone 8.1
- *Windows Server 2012 R2
- *Xbox One system software
- *Windows 10
- *Windows 10 Mobile
- *Windows Server 2016
- *Windows Server 2019
- Windows CE
- *Windows CE 3.0
- * Windows CE 5.0
- * Windows CE 6.0
- * Windows Mobile
- Singularity – A research operating system written mostly in managed code
- Midori – A managed code operating system
- Xbox 360 system software
- Xbox One system software
- Azure Sphere
- ThreadX
MITS
- Altair DOS – An early disk operating system for the Altair 8800 machine.
MontaVista
- MontaVista Mobilinux
NCR Corporation
- TMX – Transaction Management eXecutive
- IMOS – Interactive Multiprogramming Operating System, for the NCR Century 8200 series minicomputers
- VRX – Virtual Resource eXecutive
Nintendo
- ES is a computer operating system developed originally by Nintendo and since 2008 by Esrille. It is open source and runs natively on x86 platforms.
NeXT
- NeXTSTEP
Novell
- NetWare – 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.
- UnixWare
- * Novell "SuperNOS" – a never released merge of NetWare and UnixWare
- Novell "Corsair"
- * Novell "Exposé"
- Open Enterprise Server – the successor to NetWare
Quadros Systems
- RTXC Quadros RTOS – proprietary C-based RTOS used in embedded systems
RCA
- Time Sharing Operating System – first OS supporting virtual addressing of the main storage and support for both timeshare and batch interface
RoweBots
- DSPnano RTOS – 8/16 Bit Ultra Tiny Embedded Linux Compatible RTOS
Samsung Electronics
- Bada
- Tizen is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, a project within the Linux Foundation and is governed by a Technical Steering Group 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.
SCO, SCO Group
- Xenix, Unix System III based distribution for the Intel 8086/8088 architecture
- * Xenix 286, Unix System V Release 2 based distribution for the Intel 80286 architecture
- * Xenix 386, Unix System V Release 2 based distribution for the Intel 80386 architecture
- SCO Unix, SCO UNIX System V/386 was the first volume commercial product licensed by AT&T to use the UNIX System trademark. 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 Open Desktop, the first 32-bit graphical user interface for UNIX Systems running on Intel processor-based computers. Based on SCO Unix
- SCO OpenServer 5, AT&T UNIX System V Release 3 based
- SCO OpenServer 6, SVR5 based kernel with SCO OpenServer 5 application and binary compatibility, system administration, and user environments
- UnixWare
- * UnixWare 2.x, based on AT&T System V Release 4.2MP
- * UnixWare 7, UnixWare 2 kernel plus parts of 3.2v5. Referred to by SCO as SVR5
Scientific Data Systems (SDS)
- Berkeley Timesharing System for the SDS 940
SYSGO
- PikeOS – a certified real time operating system for safety and security critical embedded systems
Tandy Corporation
- TRSDOS – A 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.
- Color BASIC – A ROM-based OS created by Microsoft for the TRS-80 Color Computer.
- NewDos/80 – A third-party OS for Tandy's TRS-80 personal computers.
- DeskMate – Operating system created by Tandy Corporation and introduced with the Tandy 1000 computer.
TCSC (later NCSC)
- Edos – enhanced version of IBM's DOS/360 operating system for System/360 and System/370 IBM mainframes
Texas Instruments
- TI-RTOS Kernel – Real-time operating system for TI's embedded devices.
TRON Project
- TRON – open real-time operating system kernel
- T-Kernel
UNIVAC, Unisys
- EXEC I
- EXEC II
- EXEC 8/OS 1100/OS 2200
- VS/9, successor to RCA TSOS
Wang Laboratories
- WPS Wang Word Processing System. Micro-code based system.
- OIS Wang Office Information System. Successor to the WPS. Combined the WPS and VP/MVP systems.
Wind River Systems
- VxWorks – Small footprint, scalable, high-performance RTOS for embedded microprocessor based systems.
Zilog
- Z80-RIO
Zorin Group
- Zorin OS
Other
Lisp-based
- Lisp Machines, Inc. used an operating system written in MIT's Lisp Machine Lisp.
- Symbolics Genera written in a systems dialect of the Lisp programming language called ZetaLisp and Symbolics Common Lisp. Genera was ported to a virtual machine for the DEC Alpha line of computers.
- Texas Instruments' Explorer Lisp machine workstations also had systems code written in Lisp Machine Lisp.
- Xerox 1100 series of Lisp machines used an operating system also written in Interlisp, and was also ported to a virtual machine called "Medley."
For Elektronika BK
- ANDOS
- CSI-DOS
- MK-DOS
Non-standard language-based
- Pilot operating system – written in the Mesa and used in Xerox Star workstations
- PERQ Operating System – written in PERQ Pascal
Other proprietary non-Unix-like
- Эльбрус-1 and Эльбрус-2 – used for application, job control, system programming, implemented in uЭль-76.
- 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
- MAI Basic Four – An OS implementing Business Basic from MAI Systems.
- Michigan Terminal System – Developed by a group of universities in the US, Canada, and the UK for use on the IBM System/360 Model 67, the System/370 series, and compatible mainframes
- MUSIC/SP – an operating system developed for the S/370, running normally under VM
- OS ES – an operating system for ES EVM
- PC-MOS/386 – DOS-like, but multiuser/multitasking
- Prolog-Dispatcher – used to control Soviet Buran space ship.
- SINTRAN III – an operating system used with Norsk Data computers.
- SkyOS – commercial desktop OS for PCs
- SODA – used by the Odra 1204 computers.
- THEOS
- TSX-32 – a 32-bit operating system for x86 platform.
- TX990/TXDS, DX10 and DNOS – proprietary operating systems for TI-990 minicomputers
Other proprietary Unix-like and POSIX-compliant
- Aegis
- Amiga Unix
- Coherent
- DC/OSx
- DG/UX
- DNIX from DIAB
- DSPnano RTOS
- HeliOS developed and sold by Perihelion Software mainly for transputer-based systems
- Interactive Unix
- IRIX from SGI
- MeikOS
- NeXTSTEP
- OS-9 Unix-like RTOS.
- OS9/68K Unix-like RTOS.
- OS-9000 Unix-like RTOS.
- OSF/1
- OpenStep
- QNX
- Rhapsody
- RISC iX – derived from BSD 4.3, by Acorn computers, for their ARM family of machines
- RISC/os
- RMX
- SCO UNIX
- SINIX
- Solaris
- SunOS
- SUPER-UX
- System V
- System V/AT, 386
- Trusted Solaris
- UniFLEX
- Unicos
- UTX-32
- Zenix, Zenith corporations Unix
Non-proprietary
Unix or Unix-like
- MINIX
- BSD
- * FreeBSD
- ** DragonFlyBSD, forked from FreeBSD 4.8
- ** MidnightBSD, forked from FreeBSD 6.1
- ** GhostBSD
- ** TrueOS
- * NetBSD
- ** OpenBSD forked from NetBSD
- *** Bitrig forked from OpenBSD
- * Darwin, created by Apple using code from NeXTSTEP, FreeBSD, and NetBSD
- GNU
- Linux
- Redox
- Android
- *Android-x86
- **Remix OS
- Cray Linux Environment
- OpenSolaris
- *illumos, contains original Unix code derived from the OpenSolaris
- **OpenIndiana, 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.
- **Nexenta OS, based on the illumos kernel with Ubuntu packages
- **SmartOS, an illumos distribution for cloud computing with Kernel-based Virtual Machine integration.
- RTEMS
- Haiku
- Syllable Desktop
- VSTa
- Plurix
- TUNIS
- DahliaOS - fork of more well known Google_Fuchsia
Non-Unix
- Cosmos – written in C#
- FreeDOS – open source DOS variant
- Genode – operating system framework for microkernels
- Ghost OS – written in Assembly, C/C++
- ITS – written by MIT students
- osFree – OS/2 Warp open source clone.
- OSv – written in C++
- Phantom OS – persistent object oriented
- ReactOS – open source OS designed to be binary compatible with Windows NT and its variants ; currently in development phase
- SharpOS – written in.NET C#
- TempleOS – written in HolyC
- Visopsys – written by Andy McLaughlin
Research
Unix or Unix-like
- Plan 9 from Bell Labs – distributed OS developed at Bell Labs, based on original Unix design principles yet functionally different and going much further
- * Inferno – distributed OS derived from Plan 9, originally from Bell Labs
- Research Unix
Non-Unix
- Amoeba – research OS by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
- Croquet
- EROS – microkernel, capability-based
- *CapROS – microkernel EROS successor
- HelenOS – research and experimental operating system
- House – Haskell User's Operating System and Environment, research OS written in Haskell and C
- ILIOS – Research OS designed for routing
- L4 – second generation microkernel
- Mach – from OS kernel research at Carnegie Mellon University; see NeXTSTEP
- Nemesis – Cambridge University research OS – detailed quality of service abilities
- Singularity — experimental OS from Microsoft Research written in managed code to be highly dependable
- Spring – research OS from Sun Microsystems
- THE multiprogramming system – by Dijkstra in 1968, at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, introduced the first form of software-based memory segmentation, freeing programmers from being forced to use actual physical locations
- V – from Stanford, early 1980s
- Verve — OS designed by Microsoft Research to be verified end-to-end for type safety and memory safety
- Xinu – Study OS developed by Douglas E. Comer in the United States
Disk operating systems (DOS)
- 86-DOS
- * PC DOS
- * MS-DOS
- Concurrent CP/M-86 3.1 with PC-MODE
- * Concurrent DOS 3.1-4.1
- ** Concurrent PC DOS 3.2
- *** DOS Plus 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
- ** Concurrent DOS 8-16
- ** Concurrent DOS 286 1.x
- *** FlexOS 1.00-2.34
- **** FlexOS 186
- **** FlexOS 286
- ***** Siemens S5-DOS/MT
- ***** IBM 4680 OS
- ***** IBM 4690 OS
- ****** Toshiba 4690 OS
- **** FlexOS 386
- ***** IBM 4690 OS
- ****** Toshiba 4690 OS
- ** Concurrent DOS 386 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0
- *** Concurrent DOS 386/MGE
- *** Multiuser DOS 5.0, 5.01, 5.1
- **** CCI Multiuser DOS 5.0-7.22
- **** Datapac Multiuser DOS
- ***** Datapac System Manager 7
- **** IMS Multiuser DOS 5.1, 7.0, 7.1
- ***** IMS REAL/32 7.50, 7.51, 7.52, 7.53, 7.54, 7.60, 7.61, 7.62, 7.63, 7.70, 7.71, 7.72, 7.73, 7.74, 7.80, 7.81, 7.82, 7.83, 7.90, 7.91, 7.92, 7.93, 7.94, 7.95
- ****** IMS REAL/NG
- ** Concurrent DOS XM 5.0, 5.2, 6.0, 6.2
- *** DR DOS 3.31, 3.32, 3.33, 3.34, 3.35, 5.0, 6.0
- **** Novell PalmDOS 1
- **** Novell DR DOS "StarTrek"
- **** Novell DOS 7
- ***** Novell DOS 7 updates 1-10
- ****** Caldera OpenDOS 7.01
- ******* Enhanced DR-DOS 7.01.0x
- ******** Dell Real Mode Kernel
- ***** Novell DOS 7 updates 11-15.2
- ****** Caldera DR-DOS 7.02-7.03
- ******* DR-DOS "WinBolt"
- ******* OEM DR-DOS 7.04-7.05
- ******* OEM DR-DOS 7.06
- ******* OEM DR-DOS 7.07
- FreeDOS
- ProDOS
- PTS-DOS
- TurboDOS for Z80 and Intel 8086 processor-based systems
- Multi-tasking user interfaces and environments for DOS
- * DESQview + QEMM 386 multi-tasking user interface for DOS
- * DESQView/X
Network operating systems
- Banyan VINES – by Banyan Systems
- Cambridge Ring
- Cisco IOS – by Cisco Systems
- Cisco NX-OS – previously SAN-OS
- CTOS – by Convergent Technologies, later acquired by Unisys
- Data ONTAP – by NetApp
- ExtremeWare – by Extreme Networks
- ExtremeXOS – by Extreme Networks
- Fabric OS – by Brocade
- JunOS – by Juniper
- NetWare – networking OS by Novell
- Network operating system – developed by CDC for use in their Cyber line of supercomputers
- Novell Open Enterprise Server – Open Source networking OS by Novell. Can incorporate either SUSE Linux or Novell NetWare as its kernel
- Plan 9 – distributed OS developed at Bell Labs, based on Unix design principles but not functionally identical
- *Inferno – distributed OS derived from Plan 9, originally from Bell Labs
- TurboDOS – by Software 2000, Inc.
Generic, commodity, and other
- BLIS/COBOL
- Bluebottle also known as AOS
- BS1000 by Siemens AG
- BS2000 by Siemens AG, now BS2000/OSD from Fujitsu-Siemens Computers
- BS3000 by Siemens AG
- Contiki for various, mostly 8-bit systems, including the Apple II series, the Atari 8-bit family, and some Commodore machines.
- FLEX9
- GEM
- GEOS
- JavaOS
- JNode, written 99% in Java, provides own JVM and JIT compiler. Based on GNU Classpath.
- 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
- MERLIN for the Corvus Concept
- MorphOS
- MSP by Fujitsu, now MSP/EX, also known as Extended System Architecture, for 31-bit mode
- NetWare
- Oberon for the Ceres and Chameleon workstation projects
- OSD/XC by Fujitsu-Siemens
- OS-IV by Fujitsu
- Pick
- PRIMOS by Prime Computer
- Sinclair QDOS
- SSB-DOS
- SymbOS
- Symobi
- TripOS, 1978
- TurboDOS
- UCSD p-System
- VOS by Stratus Technologies with strong influence from Multics
- VOS3 by Hitachi for its IBM-compatible mainframes, based on IBM's MVS
- VM2000 by Siemens AG
- Visi On
- VPS/VM
Hobby
- AROS – AROS Research Operating System
- AtheOS – branched to become Syllable Desktop
- * Syllable Desktop – a modern, independently originated OS; see AtheOS
- BareMetal
- DexOS – 32-bit operating system written in x86 assembly
- DSPnano RTOS
- EmuTOS
- EROS – Extremely Reliable Operating System
- HelenOS – based on a preemptible microkernel design
- LSE/OS
- MenuetOS – extremely compact OS with GUI, written entirely in FASM assembly language
- * KolibriOS – a fork of MenuetOS
- ToaruOS
- * PonyOS
- SerenityOS
Embedded
Mobile operating systems
See also Mobile Operating systems- DIP DOS on Atari Portfolio
- Embedded Linux
- *Android
- **Replicant
- **LineageOS
- **See also List of custom Android distributions
- *Firefox OS
- *Ångström distribution
- *Familiar Linux
- *Mæmo based on Debian deployed on Nokia's Nokia 770, N800 and N810 Internet Tablets.
- *OpenZaurus
- *webOS from Palm, Inc., later Hewlett-Packard via acquisition, and most recently at LG Electronics through acquisition from Hewlett-Packard
- *Access Linux Platform
- *bada
- *Openmoko Linux
- *OPhone
- *MeeGo
- *Mobilinux
- *MotoMagx
- *Qt Extended
- *Sailfish OS
- *Tizen
- *Ubuntu Touch
- *PostmarketOS
- Inferno
- Magic Cap
- MS-DOS on Poqet PC, HP 95LX, HP 100LX, HP 200LX, HP 1000CX, HP OmniGo 700LX
- NetBSD
- Newton OS on Apple MessagePad
- Palm OS from Palm, Inc; now spun off as PalmSource
- PEN/GEOS on HP OmniGo 100 and 120
- PenPoint OS
- Plan 9 from Bell Labs
- PVOS
- Symbian OS
- *EPOC
- Windows CE, from Microsoft
- *Pocket PC from Microsoft, a variant of Windows CE
- *Windows Mobile from Microsoft, a variant of Windows CE
- *Windows Phone from Microsoft
- DSPnano RTOS
- iOS
- *watchOS
- *tvOS
- iPod software
- iPodLinux
- iriver clix OS
- RockBox
- BlackBerry OS
- PEN/GEOS, GEOS-SC, GEOS-SE
- Palm OS
- Symbian platform
- BlackBerry 10
Routers
- CatOS – by Cisco Systems
- Cisco IOS – originally Internetwork Operating System by Cisco Systems
- Inferno – distributed OS originally from Bell Labs
- IOS-XR – by Cisco Systems
- JunOS – by Juniper Networks
- Linux
- * OpenWrt
- ** DD-WRT
- ** LEDE
- ** Gargoyle
- ** LibreCMC
- *Zeroshell
- RTOS – by Force10 Networks
- FreeBSD
- * m0n0wall
- * OPNsense
- * pfsense
- List of wireless router firmware projects
Other embedded
- Apache Mynewt
- ChibiOS/RT
- Contiki
- ERIKA Enterprise
- eCos
- NetBSD
- Nucleus RTOS
- NuttX
- MINIX
- NCOS
- freeRTOS, openRTOS and safeRTOS
- OpenEmbedded
- pSOS
- QNX – Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market.
- REX OS – microkernel OS; usually an embedded cell phone OS
- RIOT
- ROM-DOS
- TinyOS
- ThreadX
- RT-Thread
- DSPnano RTOS
- Windows IoT – formerly Windows Embedded
- * Windows CE
- * Windows IoT Core
- * Windows IoT Enterprise
- Wind River VxWorks – Small footprint, scalable, high-performance RTOS for embedded microprocessor based systems.
- Wombat OS – microkernel OS; usually a real time embedded OS
- Zephyr
LEGO Mindstorms
- brickOS
- leJOS
Capability-based
- Cambridge CAP computer – operating system demonstrated the use of security capabilities, both in hardware and software, also a useful fileserver, implemented in ALGOL 68C
- Flex machine – Custom microprogrammable hardware, with an operating system, compiler, editor, * garbage collector and filing system all written in ALGOL 68.
- HYDRA – Running on the C.mmp computer at Carnegie Mellon University, implemented in the programming language BLISS
- KeyKOS nanokernel
- *EROS microkernel
- **CapROS EROS successor
- V – from Stanford, early 1980s
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- * :Category:Real-time operating systems|Real-time operating systems