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Year
Description Platform Company Link
p
1978c
Time-sharing OS for laboratory automation.
-
USA
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P/OS
1980s
Professional Operating System. Standard OS for the PRO-350 and PRO-380. Derived from RSX-11.
DEC PRO-350 and PRO-380
DEC, USA
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P2DOS
1980s
CP/M 2.2 with P2DOS as BDOS replacement.
Altair
USA
Palm OS
1996
Discontinued mobile operating system initially developed by Palm for personal digital assistants (PDAs).
Palm PDA
Palm, USA
Palm webOS 1
2009
Mobile Operating system based on an Linux core.
Palm Pré, Palm Pixi
Palm, USA
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PalmDOS
1992
Very resource-light DR DOS 6.0 derivative aimed at the emerging Palmtop/PDA market.
-
Digital Research, USA
Partikle
2000s
Embedded real time operating system designed to be POSIX compliant.
SPARC LEON 2-3-4, x86
fentISS, Spain
PascalDOS
1990s
Operating system for Soviet personal computers BK-0010 and BK-0010-01, intended for programming in the Pascal programming language.
Elektronika BK-0010
Russia
PaulOS
2002
Embedded operating system.
Atmel board
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Paxym FreeBSD
2007
BSD based OS for Cavium Octeon MIPS architecture processors.
Cavium Octeon
Paxym, USA
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PC DOS (8 versions)
1981
IBM's DOS variant, developed jointly with Microsoft.
IBM PC compatibles
IBM, Microsoft, USA
PC/GEOS
1990
See GeoWorks.
IBM PC compatibles
Berkeley Softworks, USA
PC/IX
1984
Derivated from UNIX System III from AT&T.
IBM PC compatibles
IBM, USA
PC/NOS
1980s
Network OS for MS-DOS or CP/M.
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Applied Intelligence, USA
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PC-MOS/386
1987
DOS-like, but multiuser/multitasking.
x86
The Software Link, USA
PC-UX
1985c
Discontinued NEC port of UNIX System III for their APC III and PC-9801 personal computer. It had extensive graphics capability.
NEC APC III, PC-9801
NEC, Japan
PCP
1960s
Primary Control Program, very early version of OS/360 that didn't support multiprogramming.
IBM System/360
IBM, USA
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PCUNIX
1985c
Small, inexpensive UNIX lookalike.
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Wendin, USA
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PCVMS
1985c
Small, inexpensive VMS lookalike.
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Wendin, USA
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PDOS
1980s
Multiuser, multitasking, realtime OS for the 68000, and TI-9900 and 9905.
68000, and TI-9900 and TI-9905
Eyring Research, USA
PDP-10
1974<
Virtual machine system for the PDP-10.
DEC PDP-10
USA
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PDP-10/50 Swapping Monitor
1968c
An early OS for the PDP-10.
DEC PDP-10
USA
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PDP-6 Monitor
1965c
Monitor System for the PDP-6.
DEC PDP-6
USA
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PECOS
1960s
CDC operating system, descendent of Chippewa.
-
Control Data, USA
Pegasus (1 versions)
1990s
Operating system support for distributed interactive multimedia.
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University of Twente, University of Cambridge, UK
PEN/GEOS
1992
Graphical user interface based on PC/GEOS.
HP OmniGo 100 and 120, Nokia Communicator, Casio Z-7000
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PenPoint OS
1991
Product of GO Corporation and was one of the earliest operating systems written specifically for graphical tablets and personal digital assistants.
Tablets, PDA
GO, USA
Perpos
1970s
Perpetual Processing OS for Computer Consoles Power 55/5. 68000-based multiple CPUs. UNIX-based system featuring high reliability.
Computer Consoles Power 55/5
USA
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PERQ Operating System (POS)
1980s
Written in PERQ Pascal.
PERQ Computers
PERQ, USA
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Personal CP/M
1984c
ROM-based version of CP/M 2.2 for small home computers.
Z80
Digital Research, USA
Personal CP/M-86
1983
Was only provided for several specific European computers by the manufacturers Siemens PG685 and PC16-20, Apricot PC.
i8086
Digital Research, USA
PETROS
1990s
Microsoft Windows clone programmed in a proprietary Object Pascal, by Trumpet Software International (producer of the famous Trumpet Winsock). 32-bit operating system for the PC platform.
IBM PC compatibles
Trumpet Software, Tasmania
pfsense
2006
Open source firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD.
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Rubicon Communications, USA
Phantom OS
2000s
Based on a concept of persistent virtual memory, and is managed-code oriented. Phantom OS is one of a few OSes that are not based on classical concepts of Unix-like systems.
IA-32, MIPS and amd64
Digital Zone, Russia
Phar Lap ETS
2000s
Real-time operating system, used for instance on LabVIEW real-time targets. Now part of IntervalZero.
IA-32
Pha Lap, USA
Pharos
2000s
Free open-source RTOS for Critical Systems.
ARM926, Cortex-R5, Cortex-M4, Cortex-A53 (all with memory protection)
CEA, Delphi, Geensys, France
Phoenix
1999
Based on a concept of persistent virtual memory, and is managed-code oriented. Phantom OS is one of a few OSes that are not based on classical concepts of Unix-like systems.
IA-32
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Phoenix-RTOS
2004
Real-time operating system designed for Internet of Things appliances. Successor to the Phoenix operating system.
ARM7, IA-32, eSI-RISC
Phoenix Systems, USA
Pick
1965
Often licensed and renamed. Business-oriented OS featuring an integral relational database.
-
Prime Computer, Pick Systems, USA
PicoBSD
1990s
One floppy version of FreeBSD, configured mainly for networking applications. Superseded by NanoBSD.
x86
Michael Bialecki, Poland
picoOS
2000s
Highly configurable and very fast real time operating system. It targets a wide range of architectures, from the small 8 bit processors with very low memory till huge architectures like 32 bit processors with lots of memory.
6502, 80x86, ARM7, AVR, PowerPC, Cortex-M, MSP430, PIC32
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PICOS18
2000s
Real-time operating system for PIC18 microntroller.
PIC18
Pragmatec, France
PigeonOS
2021
Online operating sytem.
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Pigeonaut LLC , USA
PikeOS
2000s
Certified real time operating system for safety and security critical embedded systems.
PPC, x86, ARM, MIPS, SPARC-LEON, SuperH
SYSGO, Germany
Piko/RT
2000s
Tiny Linux-like real-time operating system kernel, optimized for ARM Cortex-M series microprocessors. Based on the OSEK/VDX standard.
ARM Cortex-M3/M4
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PilOS
2000s
Full blown 64-bit PicoLisp runs directly on a standard x86-64 PC hardware.
x86-64 PC
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Pilot operating system
1980
Pilot operating system (used in Xerox Star workstations) was written in the Mesa programming language.
Xerox Star
Xerox, USA
Pink
1988
Code-name for Taligent OS.
Apple Macintosh
Apple, USA
Pirat-Os
2004
German Language OS Project.
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Dominic Fischer, Switzerland
Pitt Time Sharing System
1968c
An early Timesharing system developed for the IBM S/360.
IBM System/360
University of Pittsburgh, USA
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Plan 9 (3 versions)
1992
Distributed OS based on original Unix design principles yet functionally different and going much further.
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Bell Labs, USA
Plan B
2008
Distributed OS derived from Plan 9 and Off++ microkernel.
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Universidad Rev Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Platform OS
1990s
Operating system wanted to achieve platform-independence through a low-level VM.
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Plurix
1985
Aka Tropix. Integrated environment (OS/programming language combination) based on Java with a custom native code compiler for x86, an orthogonal persistent Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) for PC clusters, with a consistency model based on restartable transactions coupled with an optimistic synchronization scheme.
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Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Brazil
POK
2000s
Partitioned Operating System. Real-time embedded operating system for safety-critical systems (avionics, aerospace). It provides several functionalities and complies with many industrial standards, such as ARINC653 or POSIX. POK was designed to be used in safety-critical systems as well as in public systems.
x86, PowerPC, SPARC
France
polyFORTH
1980s
FORTH environment for Z80, 8080, 8086, 6809, 68000, and PDP-11 families.
Z80, i8080, i8086, 6809, 68000, and DEC PDP-11
FORTH, USA
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PonyOS
2013
Hobby Unix-like operating system based on ToaruOS.
-
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Portos
2000s
Real Time Operating System.
ARM
Softwave Wireless, France
PORTX
1970s
ROM-Based Real-time executive.
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Destek Group, USA
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POS (2)
1998
Peter Operating System. OS research project.
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POS (1)
1968c
Primary OS for RCA Spectra 70 And Hitachi HITAC computers.
RCA Spectra 70, Hitachi HITAC 8000
RCA, USA
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PostmarketOS
2017
Free and open-source operating system under development primarily for smartphones, based on the Alpine Linux distribution.
ARM, ARM64, x86, x86-64
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PowerTV
2000s
Open platform for developing, delivering, and driving real-world, broadband digital and analog video over two-way hybrid fiber coax (HFC) systems.
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PowerTV, USA
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Prex
2005c
Open source, royalty-free, real-time operating system for embedded systems. It is designed and implemented for resource-constrained systems that require predictable timing behavior.
ARM, IA-32, x86
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PRIMOS
1972
Sometimes spelled PR1MOS and PR1ME. Written in FORTRAN IV, that didn't have pointers, while later versions, around version 18, written in a version of PL/1, called PL/P.
Prime Computers
Prime Computer, USA
PRO/TSX-PLUS
1980s
Version of TSX-PLUS for the PRO-350.
DEC PRO-350
S&H Computer Systems, USA
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ProDOS (2 versions)
1983
Name of two similar operating systems for the Apple II series of personal computers. The original ProDOS, renamed ProDOS 8 in version 1.2, is the last official operating system usable by all 8-bit Apple II series computers.
Apple II
Apple, USA
Prolog-Dispatcher
1980s
Used to control Soviet Buran space ship.
Buran
Russia
Proolix
2000s
Unix clone project for the old 8086 PCs, from former USSR.
i8086
Serge Pustovoitoff, Russia
Protothreads
2000s
Extremely lightweight stackless threads designed for severely memory constrained systems.
AVR 8051
Adam Dunkels, Sweden
PSOS (1)
1978c
An Experimental Provably Secure Operating System.
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USA
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pSOS (2)
1982
Portable Software On Silicon. real time operating system (RTOS) and developed/marketed for the first part by Software Components Group (SCG).
68000
Alfred Chao, SCG, ISI, Wind River Systems, USA
p-System
1978c
Support environment for UCSD Pascal, based on an abstract "p-machine." Now distributed by SofTech Microsystems.
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University of California, USA
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PTOS
1970c
Paper Tape OS for the Cincinnati Milacron CIP/2200.
Cincinnati Milacron CIP/2200
USA
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PTS-DOS (1 versions)
1993
MS DOS clone.
IBM PC compatibles
Phystechsoft, Russia
PTSS
1970s
People's Time Sharing System. A time sharing system for the CDC 6600 based on BKY.
CDC 6600
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, USA
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Puma
1990s
Operating system at Sandia National Laboratories with a distributed memory architectures.
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Sandia National Laboratories, USA
PureDarwin
2010s
Community project to make Darwin more usable (some people think of it as the informal successor to OpenDarwin.
PowerPC
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PVOS
1999
Proprietary OS for Casio Pocket Viewer.
Casio Pocket Viewer
Casio, Japan
PWB/UNIX
1977
Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX). Early, now discontinued, version of the Unix operating system created in the Bell Labs Computer Science Research Group of AT&T.
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Bell Labs, USA


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