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  2. History of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Later, UNIVAC developed the EXEC 8 operating system for the 1108; it was the basis for operating systems for later members of the family. Like all early mainframe systems, EXEC I and EXEC II were a batch-oriented system that managed magnetic drums, disks, card readers and line printers; EXEC 8 supported both batch processing and on-line ...

  3. Timeline of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    DOS/360 (IBM's Disk Operating System) GEORGE 1 & 2 for ICT 1900 series; Mod 1 [7] Mod 2 [8] Mod 8 [9] MS/8 (Richard F. Lary's DEC PDP-8 system) MSOS (Mass Storage Operating System) [10] OS/360 (IBM's primary OS for its S/360 series) PCP and MFT (shipped) RAX; Remote Users of Shared Hardware (RUSH), a time-sharing system developed by Allen ...

  4. Operating system - Wikipedia

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    A library operating system ... MINIX was a stripped-down version of UNIX, developed in 1987 for educational uses, that inspired the commercially available, ...

  5. Gary Kildall - Wikipedia

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    Gary Arlen Kildall (/ ˈ k ɪ l d ˌ ɔː l /; May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur. During the 1970s, Kildall created the CP/M operating system among other operating systems and programming tools, [5] and subsequently founded Digital Research, Inc. to market and sell his software products.

  6. History of Linux - Wikipedia

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    Linus Torvalds in 2002. In 1991, while studying computer science at University of Helsinki, Linus Torvalds began a project that later became the Linux kernel.He wrote the program specifically for the hardware he was using and independent of an operating system because he wanted to use the functions of his new PC with an 80386 processor.

  7. History of Unix - Wikipedia

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    In 1997, Apple sought a new foundation for its Macintosh operating system and chose NeXTSTEP, an operating system developed by NeXT. The core operating system, which was based on BSD and the Mach kernel, was renamed Darwin after Apple acquired it.

  8. Unix - Wikipedia

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    Both Unix and the C programming language were developed by AT&T and distributed to government and academic institutions, which led to both being ported to a wider variety of machine families than any other operating system. The Unix operating system consists of many libraries and utilities along with the master control program, the kernel.

  9. Linus Torvalds - Wikipedia

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    Linus Benedict Torvalds (/ ˈ l iː n ə s ˈ t ɔːr v ɔː l d z / ⓘ LEE-nəs TOR-vawldz, [2] Finland Swedish: [ˈliːnʉs ˈtuːrvɑlds] ⓘ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel.