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

Amazon

Fire OS

Amiga Inc.

AmigaOS
- AmigaOS 1.0-3.9 (Motorola 68000)
- AmigaOS 4 (PowerPC)
Amiga Unix (a.k.a. Amix)

Amstrad

Apple

Apple II
- Apple DOS
- Apple Pascal
- Apex (Colorado School of Mines)
- ProDOS
- GS/OS
- GNO/ME
- Contiki
Apple III
- Apple SOS
Apple Lisa
Mac
- Classic Mac OS
- A/UX (UNIX System V with BSD extensions)
- Copland
- MkLinux
- Pink
- Rhapsody
- macOS (formerly Mac OS X and OS X)
  - macOS Server (formerly Mac OS X Server and OS X Server)
Apple Network Server
- IBM AIX (Apple-customized)
Apple MessagePad
- Newton OS
iPhone and iPod Touch
- iOS (formerly iPhone OS)
  - iPad
    - iPadOS
  - Apple Watch
    - watchOS
  - Apple TV
    - tvOS
  - Embedded operating systems
    - bridgeOS
  - Apple Vision Pro
    - visionOS
Embedded operating systems
- A/ROSE
- iPod software (unnamed embedded OS for iPod)
- Unnamed NetBSD variant for Airport Extreme and Time Capsule

Apollo Computer, Hewlett-Packard

Domain/OS – One of the first network-based systems. Run on Apollo/Domain hardware. Later bought by Hewlett-Packard.

Atari

Atari DOS (for 8-bit computers)
Atari TOS
Atari MultiTOS
Contiki (for 8-bit, ST, Portfolio)

BAE Systems

XTS-400

Be Inc.

BeOS
- BeIA
- BeOS r5.1d0
  - magnussoft ZETA (based on BeOS r5.1d0 source code, developed by yellowTAB)

Bell Labs

Unix ("Ken's new system," for its creator (Ken Thompson), officially Unics and then Unix, the prototypic operating system created in Bell Labs in 1969 that formed the basis for the Unix family of operating systems)
- 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 (It is from Version 7 Unix (and, to an extent, its descendants listed below) that almost all Unix-based and Unix-like operating systems descend.)
  - 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

Non-Unix Operating Systems:

Burroughs Corporation, Unisys

Burroughs MCP

Commodore International

Control Data Corporation

Lower 3000 series

SCOPE (Supervisory Control Of Program Execution)^[1]

Upper 3000 series

SCOPE (Supervisory Control Of Program Execution)^[2]
- Drum SCOPE^[3]

6x00 and related Cyber

Chippewa Operating System (COS)^[4]
- MACE (Mansfield and Cahlander Executive)
  - Kronos (Kronographic OS)^[5]
    - NOS (Network Operating System)^[6]^[7]
      - NOS/VE (NOS Virtual Environment)
- SCOPE (Supervisory Control Of Program Execution)^[8]
  - NOS/BE NOS Batch Environment^[9]
SIPROS (Simultaneous Processing Operating System)^[10]

CloudMosa

Puffin OS

Convergent Technologies

Convergent Technologies Operating System (CTOS) – later acquired by Unisys

Cromemco

Cromemco DOS (CDOS) – 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 (MV series) Eclipses, MP/AOS for microNOVA-based computers
DG/UX
RDOS Real-time Disk Operating System, with variants: RTOS and DOS (not related to PC DOS, MS-DOS etc.)

Datapoint

CTOS Cassette Tape Operating System for the Datapoint 2200^[11]
DOS Disk Operating System for the Datapoint 2200, 5500, and 1100^[12]

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, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Batch-11/DOS-11
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
DEC MICA – for the DEC PRISM
Digital UNIX – derived from OSF/1, became HP's Tru64 UNIX
Ultrix
VMS – originally by DEC (now by VMS Software Inc.) for the VAX mini-computer range; later renamed OpenVMS and ported to Alpha, and subsequently ported to Intel Itanium and then to x86-64
WAITS – for the PDP-6 and PDP-10

ENEA AB

OSE – Flexible, small footprint, high-performance RTOS for control processors

Fujitsu

GEC Computers

COS
DOS
OS4000

General Electric, Honeywell, Bull

Google

ChromiumOS is an open source operating system development version of ChromeOS. Both operating systems are based on the Linux kernel.
- ChromeOS is designed to work exclusively with web applications, though has been updated to run Android apps with full support for Google Play Store. Announced on July 7, 2009, ChromeOS is currently publicly available and was released summer 2011. The ChromeOS source code was released on November 19, 2009, under the BSD license as ChromiumOS.
- Container-Optimized OS (COS) is an operating system that is optimized for running Docker containers, based on ChromiumOS.^[13]
Android is an operating system for mobile devices. It consists of Android Runtime (userland) with Linux (kernel), 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 (RTOS) scalable to universal devices, in early development, from the tiniest embedded hardware, wristwatches, tablets to the largest personal computers. Unlike ChromeOS and Android, it is not based on the Linux kernel, but instead began on a new microkernel called "Zircon", derived from "Little Kernel".
Wear OS a version of Google's Android operating system designed for smartwatches and other wearables.

Green Hills Software

INTEGRITY – Reliable Operating system
INTEGRITY-178B – A DO-178B certified version of INTEGRITY.
μ-velOSity – A lightweight microkernel.

Harris Computer Systems

Vulcan O/S – Proprietary O/S for Harris Computer Systems (HCX)
CX/UX – Proprietary UNIX based OS for Harris' computers (MCX)

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, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

HP Multi-Programming Executive (MPE, MPE/XL, and MPE/iX) – runs on HP 3000 and HP e3000 mini-computers
HP-UX – runs on HP9000 and Itanium servers (from small to mainframe-class computers)

Honeywell

CP-6

Huawei

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.
iMAX 432 - an operating system for systems based on Intel's iAPX 432 architecture.
Clear Linux - an operating system optimized for Intel's microprocessors with an emphasis on performance and security.

IBM

On early mainframes: 1410, 7010, 704, 709, 7090, 7094, 7040, 7044, 7030

BESYS – for the IBM 7090
Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) – developed at MIT's Computation Center for use on a modified IBM 7094
FORTRAN Monitor System (FMS) – for the IBM 709 and 7090
GM OS & GM-NAA I/O – for the IBM 704
IBSYS – tape based operating system for IBM 7090 and IBM 7094
7040/7044 Operating System (16/32K) - 7040-PR-150
IJMON – A bootable serial I/O monitor for loading programs for the IBM 1400 series^{[citation needed]}
1410 Processor Operating System (PR-155) for the 1410 and 7010
SHARE Operating System (SOS) – for the IBM 704 and 709
University of Michigan Executive System (UMES) – for the IBM 704, 709, and 7090)

On S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes

OS/360 and successors on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes
- OS/360 (first official OS targeted for the System/360 architecture)
  - PCP (Primary Control Program, a kernel and a ground breaking automatic space allocating file system)
  - MFT (original Multi-programming with a Fixed number of Tasks, replaced by MFT II)
  - MFT II (Multi-Programming with a Fixed number of Tasks, had up to 15 fixed size application partitions, plus partitions for system tasks, initially defined at boot time but redefinable by operator command)
  - MVT (Multi-Programming with a Variable number of Tasks, had up to 15 application regions defined dynamically, plus additional regions for system tasks)
  - M65MP (MVT with support for a multiprocessor 360/65)
- OS/VS (port of OS/360 targeted for the System/370 virtual memory architecture (OS/370 is not the correct name for OS/VS1 and OS/VS2.) OS/VS has the following variations:
  - OS/VS1 (Operating System/Virtual Storage 1, Virtual-memory version of OS/360 MFT II)
    - OS/VS1 Basic Programming Extensions (BPE) adds device support and VM handshaking
  - OS/VS2 (Operating System/Virtual Storage 2, Virtual-memory version of OS/360 MVT)
    - OS/VS2 R1 (Called Single Virtual Storage (SVS), Virtual-memory version of OS/360 MVT but without multiprocessing support)
    - OS/VS2 R2 through R3.8 (called Multiple Virtual Storage, MVS, eliminated most need for VS1).
      - MVS/SE (MVS System Extensions)
- MVS/SP (MVS System Product) V1
- MVS/370 refers to OS/VS2 MVS, MVS/SE and MVS/SP Version 1
- MVS/XA (MVS/SP V2, supports S/370 Extended Architecture, 31-bit addressing)
- MVS/ESA (MVS supported Enterprise Systems Architecture, horizontal addressing extensions: data only address spaces called Dataspaces)
  - MVS/SP V3
  - MVS/ESA SP V4 (a Unix environment was available for MVS/ESA SP V4R3)
  - MVS/ESA SP V5 (the UNIX environment was bundled in this and all subsequent versions)
- OS/390 replacement for MVS/ESA SP V5 with some products bundled
- z/OS z/Architecture replacement for OS/390 with 64-bit virtual addressing
- Phoenix/MVS (Developed at Cambridge University)
DOS/360 and successors on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes
- BOS/360 (early interim version of DOS/360, briefly available at a few Alpha & Beta System/360 sites)
- TOS/360 (similar to BOS above and more fleeting, able to boot and run from 2x00 series tape drives)
- DOS/360 (Disk Operating System (DOS), multi-programming system with up to 3 partitions, first commonly available OS for System/360)
  - DOS/360/RJE (DOS/360 with a control program extension that provided for the monitoring of remote job entry hardware (card reader & printer) connected by dedicated phone lines)
- DOS/VS (First DOS offered on System/370 systems, provided virtual storage)
- DOS/VSE (also known as VSE, upgrade of DOS/VS, up to 14 fixed size processing partitions )
  - VSE/Advanced Functions (VSE/AF) - Additional functionality for DOS/VSE
- VSE/SP (program product including DOS/VSE and VSE/AF)
- VSE/ESA, replaces VSE/SP, supports ESA/370 and ESA/390 with 31-bit addresses
- z/VSE (latest version of the four decades old DOS lineage, supports 64-bit addresses, multiprocessing, multiprogramming, SNA, TCP/IP, and some virtual machine features in support of Linux workloads)
CP/CMS (Control Program/Cambridge Monitor System) and successors on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes
- CP-40/CMS (for System/360 Model 40)
- CP-67/CMS (for System/360 Model 67)
- Virtual Machine Facility/370 (VM/370) - the CP virtual machine hypervisor, Conversational Monitor System (CMS) operating system and supporting facilities for System/370 (24-bit addresses)
  - VM/370 Basic System Extensions Program Product (VM/BSE, AKA BSEPP) is an enhancement to VM/370
  - VM/370 System Extensions Program Product (VM/SE, AKA SEPP) is an enhancement to VM/370 that includes the facilities of VM/BSE
- Virtual Machine/System Product (VM/SP) replaces VM/370, VM/BSE and VM/SE.
- Virtual Machine/Extended Architecture (VM/XA) refers to three versions of VM that support System/370 Extended Architecture (S/370-XA) with 31-bit virtual addresses
  - Virtual Machine/Extended architecture Migration Aid (VM/XA MA) - Intended for MVS/370 to MVS/XA migration
  - Virtual Machine/Extended Architecture Systems Facility (VM/XA SF) - new release of VM/XA MA with additional functionality
  - Virtual Machine/Extended Architecture System Product (VM/XA SP) - Replaces VM/SP, VM/SP HPO and VM/XA SF
- Virtual Machine/Enterprise Systems Architecture (VM/ESA), supports S/370, ESA/370 and ESA/390 (a Unix environment was available starting with^[14] Version 2.)

- z/VM (z/Architecture version of the VM OS with 64-bit addressing). Starting with Version 3,^[15] the Unix environment was standard.

TPF Line (Transaction Processing Facility) on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes (largely used by airlines)
- ACP (Airline Control Program)
- TPF (Transaction Processing Facility)
- z/TPF (z/Architecture extension)
Unix-like on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes
- AIX/370 (IBM's Advanced Interactive eXecutive, a System V Unix version)
- AIX/ESA (IBM's Advanced Interactive eXecutive, a System V Unix version)
- OpenSolaris for System z
- UTS (developed by Amdahl)
- Linux on IBM Z
Others on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes:
- BOS/360 (Basic Operating System)
- Distributed Processing Programming Executive/370 (DPPX/370) a port of DDPX from 8100 to S/370.
- MTS (Michigan Terminal System, developed by a group of universities in the US, Canada, and the UK for the IBM System/360 Model 67, System/370 series, and compatible mainframes)
- RTOS/360 (IBM's Real Time Operating System, ran on 5 NASA custom System/360-75s)^[16]
- TOS/360 (Tape Operating System)
- TSS/360 (IBM's Time Sharing System)
- MUSIC/SP (developed by McGill University for IBM System/370)
- ORVYL and WYLBUR (developed by Stanford University for IBM System/360)

On PC and Intel x86 based architectures

PC DOS, IBM DOS
- PC DOS 1.x, 2.x, 3.x (developed jointly with Microsoft)
- IBM DOS 4.x, 5.0 (developed jointly with Microsoft)
- PC DOS 6.1, 6.3, 7, 2000, 7.10

OS/2
- OS/2 1.x (developed jointly with Microsoft)
- OS/2 2.x
- OS/2 Warp 3 (ported to PPC via Workplace OS)
- OS/2 Warp 4
- eComStation (Warp 4.5/Workspace on Demand, rebundled by Serenity Systems International)
- ArcaOS (Warp 4.52 based system sold by Arca Noae, LLC)
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 (IBM's Advanced Interactive eXecutive, a System V Unix version)

On other hardware platforms

IBM Series/1
- EDX (Event Driven Executive)
- RPS (Realtime Programming System)
- CPS (Control Programming Support, subset of RPS)
- SerIX (Unix on Series/1)
IBM 1130
- DMS (Disk Monitor System)
IBM 1800
- TSX (Time Sharing eXecutive)
- MPX (Multi Programming eXecutive)
IBM 8100
- DPCX (Distributed Processing Control eXecutive)
- DPPX (Distributed Processing Programming Executive)
IBM System/3
- DMS (Disk Management System)
IBM System/34, IBM System/36
- SSP (System Support Program)
IBM System/38
- CPF (Control Program Facility)
IBM System/88
- Stratus VOS (developed by Stratus, and used for IBM System/88, Original equipment manufacturer from Stratus)
IBM AS/400, iSeries, System i, IBM Power Systems
- IBM i (previously known as OS/400 and i5/OS, descendant of System/38 CPF, includes System/36 SSP and AIX environment)
UNIX on IBM RT PC
- AOS (a BSD Unix version, not related to Data General AOS)
- AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, a System V Unix version)
UNIX on POWER ISA, PowerPC, and Power ISA
- AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, a System V Unix version)
OthersPhysics
- Workplace OS (a microkernel based operating system including OS/2, developed and canceled in the 1990s)
- K42 (open-source research operating system on PowerPC or x86 based cache-coherent multiprocessor systems)
- Dynix (developed by Sequent, and used for IBM NUMA-Q too)

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

Microsoft Corporation

Xenix (licensed version of Unix; licensed to SCO in 1987)
MS-DOS (developed jointly with IBM, versions 1.0–6.22)
- Z-DOS
- MS-Net
- MS-DOS 4.0 (multitasking)
- MS-DOS 7
- MSX-DOS (developed by MS Japan for the MSX 8-bit computer)
- DOS/V
OS/2 1.x (developed jointly with IBM until version 1.3)
- LAN Manager
Windows (16-bit and 32-bit preemptive and cooperative multitasking, running atop MS-DOS)
- Windows 1.0 (Windows 1)
- Windows 2.0 (Windows 2 – separate version for i386 processor)
- Windows 3.0 (Windows 3)
- Windows 3.1x (Windows 3.1)
- Windows for Workgroups 3.1 (Codename Snowball)
- Windows 3.2 (Chinese-only release)
- Windows for Workgroups 3.11
- Windows 95 (codename Chicago – Windows 4.0)
- Windows 98 (codename Memphis – Windows 4.1)
- Windows Millennium Edition (Windows ME – Windows 4.9)
Windows NT (Full 32-bit or 64-bit kernel, not dependent on MS-DOS)
- Windows NT 3.1
- Windows NT 3.5
- Windows NT 3.51
- Windows NT 4.0
- Windows 2000 (Windows NT 5.0)
- Windows XP (Windows NT 5.1)
- Windows Server 2003 (Windows NT 5.2)
- Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (based on Windows XP)
- Windows Vista (Windows NT 6.0)
- Windows Azure (Cloud OS Platform) 2009
- Windows Home Server (based on Windows Server 2003)
- Windows Server 2008 (based on Windows Vista)
- Windows 7 (Windows NT 6.1)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (based on Windows 7)
- Windows Home Server 2011 (based on Windows Server 2008 R2)
- Windows 8 (Windows NT 6.2)
- Windows RT
- Windows Phone 8
- Windows Server 2012 (based on Windows 8)
- Windows 8.1 (Windows NT 6.3)
- Windows Phone 8.1
- Windows Server 2012 R2 (based on Windows 8.1)
- Windows 10 (Windows NT 10.0)
- Windows 10 Mobile
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows 11 (Windows NT 10.0)
- Windows Server 2022
Windows CE (OS for handhelds, embedded devices, and real-time applications that is similar to other versions of Windows)
- Windows CE 3.0
- Windows CE 5.0
- Windows Embedded CE 6.0
- Windows Embedded Compact 7
- Windows Embedded Compact 2013
- Windows Mobile (based on Windows CE, but for a smaller form factor)
- Windows Phone 7
- KIN OS
Xbox system software
Singularity – A research operating system written mostly in managed code (C#)
Midori – A managed code operating system
SONiC
Azure Sphere
CBL-Mariner

MITS

Altair DOS – An early disk operating system for the Altair 8800 machine.^{[citation needed]}

MontaVista

MontaVista Mobilinux

Motorola

VERSAdos

NCR Corporation

TMX – Transaction Management eXecutive.
IMOS – Interactive Multiprogramming Operating System (circa 1978), for the NCR Century 8200 series minicomputers. ^[17]
VRX – Virtual Resource eXecutive.

Nintendo

ES – a computer operating system developed originally by Nintendo and since 2008 by Esrille. It is open source and runs natively on x86 platforms.
Wii system software
Wii U system software
Nintendo Switch system software

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

Open Mobile Platform

Aurora OS – the successor to Sailfish OS (not to be confused with a different Aurora OS)

Quadros Systems

RTXC Quadros RTOS – proprietary C-based RTOS used in embedded systems

RCA

Time Sharing Operating System (TSOS) – 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 (TSG) 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.
Orsay
One UI - Android skin

Scientific Data Systems (SDS)

Berkeley Timesharing System for the SDS 940

SCO, SCO Group

Source:^[18]

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 (1989). 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 (UnixWare 7) 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 (UnixWare 2 + OpenServer 5 = UnixWare 7). Referred to by SCO as SVR5

Silicon Laboratories (formerly Micrium Inc.)

Micrium OS - customized μC/OS-III for Silicon Laboratories's SoC products

Sinclair Research

Sinclair BASIC was used in the 8-bit home computers from Sinclair Research and Timex Sinclair. It was included in the ROM, and the computers booted to the Basic interpreter. Various versions exist, with the latter ones supporting disk drive operations.

Sony

SYSGO

PikeOS – a certified real time operating system for safety and security critical embedded systems

Tandem Computers, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

NonStop OS - formerly Guardian (Tandem), then NonStop Kernel, then NonStop OS; runs on HPE's NonStop line of servers

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.^[19]
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.^{[citation needed]}

TCSC (later NCSC)

Edos – enhanced version of IBM's DOS/360 (and later DOS/VS and DOS/VSE) 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.

Weston Embedded Solutions

μC/OS-II – a small pre-emptive priority based multi-tasking kernel
μC/OS-III – a small pre-emptive priority based multi-tasking kernel, with unlimited number of tasks and priorities, and round-robin scheduling
Cesium RTOS - commercial continuation of Micrium's μC/OS-III forked from the open-sources release

Wind River Systems

VxWorks – Small footprint, scalable, high-performance RTOS for embedded microprocessor based systems.^[20]

Zilog

Z80-RIO

Other

Lisp-based

Lisp Machines, Inc. (also known as LMI) 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

Non-standard language-based

Pilot operating system – written in the Mesa language and used on Xerox Star workstations.
PERQ Operating System (POS) – written in PERQ Pascal.

Other proprietary non-Unix-like

Operating system for Эльбрус-1 (Elbrus-1) and Эльбрус-2 – used for application, job control, system programming,^[21] implemented in uЭль-76 (AL-76).
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
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 shuttle.
SINTRAN III – an operating system used with Norsk Data computers.
SkyOS – commercial desktop OS for PCs
SODA – used by the Odra 1204 computers.^[22]
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 (Apollo Computer)
Amiga Unix (Amiga ports of Unix System V release 3.2 with Amiga A2500UX and SVR4 with Amiga A3000UX. Started in 1990, last version was in 1992)
Coherent (Unix-like OS from Mark Williams Co. for PC class computers)
DC/OSx (DataCenter/OSx—an operating system developed by Pyramid Technology for its MIPS-based systems)
DG/UX (Data General Corp)
DNIX from DIAB
DSPnano RTOS (POSIX nanokernel, DSP Optimized, Open Source)
HeliOS developed and sold by Perihelion Software mainly for transputer-based systems
Interactive Unix (a port of the UNIX System V operating system for Intel x86 by Interactive Systems Corporation)
IRIX from SGI
MeikOS
NeXTSTEP (developed by NeXT; a Unix-based OS based on the Mach microkernel)
OS-9 Unix-like RTOS. (OS from Microware for Motorola 6809 based microcomputers)
OS9/68K Unix-like RTOS. (OS from Microware for Motorola 680x0 based microcomputers; based on OS-9)
OS-9000 Unix-like RTOS. (OS from Microware for Intel x86 based microcomputers; based on OS-9, written in C)
OSF/1 (developed into a commercial offering by Digital Equipment Corporation)
OPENSTEP
QNX (POSIX, microkernel OS; usually a real time embedded OS)
Rhapsody (an early form of Mac OS X)
RISC iX – derived from BSD 4.3, by Acorn computers, for their ARM family of machines
RISC/os (a port by MIPS Technologies of 4.3BSD for its MIPS-based computers)
RMX
SCO UNIX (from SCO, bought by Caldera who renamed themselves SCO Group)
SINIX (a port by SNI of Unix to the MIPS architecture)
Solaris (from Sun, bought by Oracle; a System V-based replacement for SunOS)
SunOS (BSD-based Unix system used on early Sun hardware)
SUPER-UX (a port of System V Release 4.2MP with features adopted from BSD and Linux for NEC SX architecture supercomputers)
System V (a release of AT&T Unix, 'SVR4' was the 4th minor release)
System V/AT, 386 (The first version of AT&T System V UNIX on the IBM 286 and 386 PCs, ported and sold by Microport)
Trusted Solaris (Solaris with kernel and other enhancements to support multilevel security)
UniFLEX (Unix-like OS from TSC for DMA-capable, extended addresses, Motorola 6809 based computers; e.g. SWTPC, Gimix and others)
Unicos (the version of Unix designed for Cray Supercomputers, mainly geared to vector calculations)
UTX-32 (Developed by Gould CSD (Computer System Division), a Unix-based OS that included both BSD and System V characteristics. It was one of the first Unix based systems to receive NSA's C2 security level certification.)^{[citation needed]}
Zenix, Zenith corporations Unix (a popular USA electronics maker at the time)^{[citation needed]}

Non-proprietary

Unix or Unix-like

MINIX (study OS developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in the Netherlands)
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a variant of Unix originally for DEC PDP-11 and VAX hardware)
- FreeBSD (one of the outgrowths of UC Regents' abandonment of CSRG's 'BSD Unix')
  - DragonFlyBSD, forked from FreeBSD 4.8
  - MidnightBSD, forked from FreeBSD 6.1
  - GhostBSD
  - TrueOS (previously known as PC-BSD), made for desktop/laptop usage, now discontinued
  - NomadBSD, a project aiming to tend FreeBSD to desktop/laptop needs
- NetBSD (an embedded device BSD variant)
  - OpenBSD forked from NetBSD
    - Bitrig forked from OpenBSD, discontinued
    - FuguIta,^[23] a live OpenBSD fork by a Japanese developer^[24]
- Darwin, created by Apple using code from NeXTSTEP, FreeBSD, and NetBSD
GNU (also known as GNU/Hurd)
Linux (see also List of Linux distributions) (alleged to be GNU/Linux^[25] see GNU/Linux naming controversy)
- Android^[26]
  - Android-x86
    - Remix OS
  - EulerOS - Linux commercial distribution for cloud based software by Huawei
    - openEuler - open-source community version of EulerOS
    - NestOS - open-source cloud based operating system based on EulerOS, contributed by openEuler community
Redox (written in Rust)^[27]
OpenSolaris
- illumos, contains original Unix (SVR4) code derived from the OpenSolaris (discontinued by Oracle in favor of Solaris 11 Express)
  - 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 (Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems)
Syllable Desktop
VSTa
Plurix (or Tropix^[28]) (by Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ)
TUNIS (University of Toronto)
Xv6 - a simple Unix-like teaching operating system from MIT
SerenityOS - aims to be a modern Unix-like operating system, yet with a look and feel that emulates 1990s operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and the classic Mac OS.

Non-Unix

Cosmos – written in C#
EmuTOS - open source Atari TOS variant
FreeDOS – open source MS-DOS variant
Genode – operating system framework for microkernels (written in C++)
Google Fuchsia
Haiku – open source inspired by BeOS, in development
Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS) – written in the MIDAS macro assembler language for the PDP-6 and PDP-10^[29] by MIT students
LiteOS
MagiC - open source Atari TOS variant
OpenHarmony - LiteOS kernel and kernel add-ons side of the kernel tree under Kernel Abstract Layer (KAL) structure
Uniproton real-time operating system for ultra-low latency and adaptable mixed-critical deployment capabilities contributed by openEuler community and also part of OpenHarmony add-on kernel
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 (Windows XP, Windows 2000, etc.); in development
SharpOS – written in .NET C#
Visopsys – written in C and assembly by Andy McLaughlin

Research