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  2. Operating system - Wikipedia

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    A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system intended for applications with fixed deadlines ( real-time computing ). Such applications include some small embedded systems, automobile engine controllers, industrial robots, spacecraft, industrial control, and some large-scale computing systems.

  3. List of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. History of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Computer operating systems (OSes) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application programs on a computer, and the links needed to control and synchronize computer hardware. On the first computers, with no operating system, every program needed the full hardware specification to run correctly and perform standard tasks, and its ...

  5. Timeline of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    DYSEAC - an early machine capable of distributing computing. 1955. General Motors Operating System made for IBM 701 [2] MIT 's Tape Director operating system made for UNIVAC 1103 [3] [4] 1956. GM-NAA I/O for IBM 704, based on General Motors Operating System. 1957.

  6. Monolithic kernel - Wikipedia

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    Monolithic kernel. A monolithic kernel is an operating system architecture where the entire operating system is working in kernel space. The monolithic model differs from other operating system architectures (such as the microkernel architecture) [1] [2] in that it alone defines a high-level virtual interface over computer hardware.

  7. Comparison of open-source operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Per-process virtual file-system layer KolibriOS: No MenuetOS: No GNU: Unix ReactOS: No L4, Fiasco, Pistachio: Plan 9: No No Unix-like, no root No snapshots, venti archival storage, per-process namespace, user-mountable file systems AROS: Syllable: Unix 64-bit, journaling, extended file attributes: Inferno: No No Unix-like, no root No

  8. Symbian - Wikipedia

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    Proprietary software, [5] formerly Eclipse Public. Official website. symbian .nokia .com (defunct as of May 2014), symbian .org (defunct as of 2009–10) Support status. Unsupported. Symbian is a discontinued mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones. [6]

  9. Palm OS - Wikipedia

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    Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) was a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen -based graphical user interface.