Knowledge: operating systems

2K ∞ A-UX ∞ AIX ∞ Ada ∞ Amiga ∞ Amoeba ∞ Amstrad ∞ Apple II ∞ Archy ∞ AtheOS ∞ BIOS BSD ∞ BSD-OS ∞ BeOS ∞ Boot Managers CPM Capability Choices ∞ ChorusOS ∞ Closed Source Consumer Information ∞ Croquet ∞ DOS ∞ DR-DOS ∞ Darwin ∞ Data General ∞ DexOS ∞ Digital Unix ∞ Directories Distributed ∞ DragonFly BSD ∞ EPOC ∞ EROS ∞ Education Embedded Erlang ∞ Extensible FreeBSD ∞ FreeDOS ∞ FreeRTOS ∞ Functional GEOS ∞ GNU Hurd ∞ Graphic Subsystems Guides HP-UX ∞ Handheld History Hybrid Kernel ∞ IBM ∞ IRIX ∞ Inferno ∞ Java ∞ KolibriOS ∞ L4 ∞ Language-based ∞ Linux Lisp ∞ LynxOS ∞ MINIX ∞ ML ∞ MPE ∞ Mac OS Mach ∞ Mainframe MenuetOS ∞ MicroC-OS ∞ Microkernel

Microsoft Windows Midrange Monolithic MorphOS ∞ NeXT ∞ Nemesis ∞ NetBSD ∞ NetWare ∞ Network Nucleus ∞ OS X ∞ OS-2 OS-400 ∞ OS-9 ∞ OSF1 ∞ Oberon ∞ Object-Oriented Open Source OpenBSD ∞ POSIX PURE ∞ Palm OS ∞ Parallel Persistent Pick ∞ Plan 9 ∞ Programming ∞ QNX ∞ Quality of Service ∞ REAL-32 ∞ REBOL-IOS ∞ RISC OS ∞ RTEMS ∞ ReactOS ∞ Realtime Reflective Research RxDOS ∞ SCO ∞ Self ∞ Single Address Space SkyOS ∞ Smalltalk ∞ Solaris ∞ Squeak ∞ Submicrokernel Syllable ∞ Symbian ∞ THEOS TI-99 4A TRON ∞ TUNES ∞ ThreadX ∞ TinyOS ∞ Tru64 ∞ Unix V2 OS ∞ VMS ∞ VSE ∞ VSTa ∞ VxWorks ∞ Xinu ∞ eCos ∞ x86 z-OS ∞ z-VM ∞

See Also:

• computers → programming → languages

Links

How Stuff Works: Operating Systems 
http://www.howstuffworks.com/operating-system.htm

Unbiased enlightening tutorial with impartial description of how OSs work, and many related links.

Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter 
http://srom.zgp.org/

The web-based operating system quality and approval metric.

Internet Operating System Counter 
http://www.leb.net/hzo/ioscount/

Statistics on Internet OS use, WWW, FTP, and News servers. Over 940,000 hosts checked in this 1999 survey.

OSNews: Exploring the Future of Computing 
http://www.osnews.com/

Weblog style online magazine on operating systems and computing environments. Daily updates, reader forum with many comments.

Convergence International 
http://www.convergence.org/

The non-Wintel user group, supporting Acorn, Amiga, Apple, ARM, Be, NCs, PowerPC, Psion, Unix and other alternative operating systems. Services include a non-Wintel news summary.

Operating System 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system

Growing article, with links to many related topics. Wikipedia.

Newsgroups

• comp.os.misc
• comp.os.research

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