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This chapter presents a short history of operating systems, including the IBM OS/360, which was the operating system for the IBM System/360 family of computers. We discuss the MVS and VM operating systems, which were used on the IBM System/370 mainframe computer. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed the popular UNIX operating system at Bell Labs in the early 1970s. DEC developed the VAX/VMS operating system in the late 1970s for its VAX family of minicomputers. Microsoft developed MS/DOS for the IBM personal computer in 1981, and it introduced Windows as a response to the Apple Macintosh. Android and iOS are popular operating systems for mobile devices.
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Not to be confused with DOS used on IBM personal computers.
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O’Regan, G. (2021). History of Operating Systems. In: A Brief History of Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66599-9_13
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