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Operating systems are the core component of a computer. The OS sits between the hardware and the user and user's programs.
Operating Systems Family:
- AmigaDOS - Commodore Amiga OS
- Android - Google's popular Linux-based OS for handhelds and tablets
- BSD - Berkeley Standard Distribution version of Unix from the University of California at Berkeley
- Chromium OS - Google's emerging Linux based open source OS for desktops, laptops, and netbooks
- CP-M - Control Program for Microcomputers from Digital Research
- FreeBSD - Open source fork of the Berkeley Standard Distribution
- Gnu Hurd - The Gnu project's open source OS kernel
- iOS - Apple's OS/X based OS for the iPhone, iTouch, and iPad
- Linux - Linus Torvald's popular open source Unix look-alike
- MPE - Hewlett-Packard's OS for the HP-3000 minicomputer
- MS-DOS - Microsoft DOS for early PCs
- OS-X - Apple's BSD based OS for the Macintosh
- NetBSD - Free, BSD-based UNIX operating system.
- OpenBSD - Free BSD based secure operating system
- OpenVMS - Digital Equipment Corporation's OS for the 32 bit VAX mini-computer and 64 bit Alpha architecture
- PalmOS - Operating system on Palm handhelds and compatibles
- Plan 9 - AT&T research OS intended as follow on for Unix
- RiscOS - Acorn Computers OS for ARM based computers
- Smalltalk - Xerox PARC operating environment and language
- Symbian - Nokia's OS for smartphones
- UCSD P-system - University of California at San Diego OS, implementing a virtual machine and programmed in Pascal
- Unix - AT&T operating system from Bell Labs
- WebOS - Hewlett-Packard's (formerly Palm's) Linux based OS for handhelds and tablets
- Windows - Microsoft Windows
- zOS - IBM mainframe operating system