Operating systems (OSs) do many things: it is the block of software that runs in the memory of a computer which mediates between the hardware below and application(s) above; provides consistent access to various ... [MORE] 2K@ (4) A-UX@ (12) AIX@ (26) Ada@ (1) Amiga@ (12) Amoeba@ (3) Amstrad@ (7) Apple II@ (54) Archy@ (13) AtheOS@ (11) BIOS (12) BSD@ (307) BSD-OS@ (1) BeOS@ (54) Boot Managers (30) CPM (19) Choices@ (9) Closed Source (1) DOS@ (221) DR-DOS@ (5) Darwin@ (12) Data General@ (4) Digital Unix@ (7) Directories (8) Distributed@ (41) EPOC@ (68) EROS@ (6) Education (9) Extensible (6) File Systems (29) FreeBSD@ (84) FreeDOS@ (9) GEOS@ (20) GNU Hurd@ (20) Graphic Subsystems (1147) Guides (7) HP-UX@ (10) History (6) IRIX@ (3) Inferno@ (3) Java@ (9) L4@ (11) Language-based@ (9) Linux (2733) Lisp@ (5) MINIX@ (15) ML@ (2) MPE@ (103) Mac OS (745) Mach@ (42) Mainframe (342) Microkernel (139) Microsoft Windows (604) Midrange (200) NeXT@ (15) Nemesis@ (2) NetBSD@ (47) NetWare@ (51) Network (118) Nucleus@ (7) OS X@ (74) OS-2 (99) OS-400@ (111) OS-9@ (5) OSF1@ (7) Oberon@ (64) Object-Oriented (85) Open Source (17) OpenBSD@ (112) POSIX (3) PURE@ (4) Palm OS@ (595) Parallel (2) Persistent (5) Pick@ (521) Plan 9@ (11) Programming@ (36) QNX@ (18) Quality of Service@ (7) REAL-32@ (4) REBOL-IOS@ (139) RISC OS@ (527) RTEMS@ (5) Realtime (191) Research (4) RxDOS@ (4) SCO@ (215) Self@ (16) Single Address Space (10) Smalltalk@ (300) Solaris@ (72) Squeak@ (92) Submicrokernel (9) THEOS (5) TI-99 4A (35) TRON@ (10) TUNES@ (4) ThreadX@ (3) TinyOS@ (6) Tru64@ (7) Unix (998) V2 OS@ (4) VMS@ (85) VSE@ (11) VSTa@ (2) VxWorks@ (3) eCos@ (2) x86 (240) z-OS@ (73) z-VM@ (18) 1. Internet Operating System Counter - Statistics on Internet OS use, WWW, FTP, and News servers. Over 940,000 hosts checked in this 1999 survey. 2. Convergence International - 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. 3. How Stuff Works: Operating Systems - Unbiased enlightening tutorial with impartial description of how OSs work, and many related links. 4. Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter - The web-based operating system quality and approval metric. 5. OSNews: Exploring the Future of Computing - Weblog style online magazine on operating systems and computing environments. Daily updates, reader forum with many comments.

Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. Submit a Site - Update a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

© 2008 Chamas Enterprises Inc.