Friday, April 1, 2011

Popular Operating Systems

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SYSTEM                PURPOSE


AROS ------------- replacement for Amiga OS


BeOS ------------- Mac/Pentium/Alpha OS


CHORUS ----------- for communication devices


Coherent UNIX ---- UNIX variant


CP/M ------------- precursor to DOS comp.os.cpm


CTOS ------------- networking OS


DR-DOS v6.0 ------ DOS from Novell


FreeBSD ---------- free UNIX variant


GEOS OS ---------- from GeoWorks


GNU -------------- free UNIX variant


Grasshopper OS --- for persistent systems


Helios ----------- real-time embedded OS


HP/UX 10.x ------- a Unix variant from HP


IBM OS/2 v4.x ---- commercial GUI OS


Linux ------------ free UNIX variant


LynxOS ----------- real-time OS


Mach 4.x --------- small multi-processor OS


Macintosh OS8 ---- OS for Macintosh systems


MaxMinix --------- Minix variant for Mac


Magic Cap -------- communication-based OS


Minix small ------ free UNIX variant


MkLinux ---------- Mach-based Linux


MS-DOS v6--------- commercial DOS


Multics ---------- time-sharing OS


NetBSD 1.2 ------- free UNIV variant


Netware v4.x ----- networking OS


NeXTStep --------- networking OS


Novell-DOS v7.0--- DOS version


OSF/1 DEC OS ----- for Alpha


PC-DOS v7.0 ------ DOS version from IBM


Rhapsody --------- Macintosh OS


SCO Unix --------- a UNIX variant from SCO


Solaris 2.5 ------ a UNIX variant from Sun


Unix ------------- the classic workstation OS


UnixWare --------- a UNIX variant from SCO


VMS (OpenVMS)----- the classic mainframe OS


Windows 95 ------- commercial GUI PS OS


Windows 98 ------- commercial GUI PC OS


Windows 2000 ----- commercial networking


Windows 2003 ----- commercial networking


Windows ME ------- commercial GUI PC OS


Windows XP ------- commercial GUI PC OS


Windows Vista ---- commercial GUI PC OS


Windows 7 -------- commercial GUI PC OS


Windows CE ------- version for hand-held PCs


Windows NT v4.0 -- commercial networking


X Window System -- a UNIX variant


Xinu ------------ multi-tasking OS

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