CMSC 412, Operating Systems

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Outline - some operating systems:

1. Windows
2. DOS
   
3. Mac - macOS
4. NeXT
   
5. Linux
6. Minix
7. Unix
8. POSIX
   

Windows

• List of Microsoft Windows versions - Wikipedia
• Windows Commands | Microsoft Docs -
  some of the more interesting commands:
• Windows CMD Commands List Extended - ByteScout
• help
• ipconfig
• netstat
• reg
• systeminfo
• tasklist
• tree
• wmic

DOS

• MS-DOS - Wikipedia
• List of DOS commands - Wikipedia

Configurations

• Disk drive partitions
• Windows Registry - Wikipedia
• Configuration file - Wikipedia
• Hidden file and hidden directory - Wikipedia
• Unix
• Linux configuration files – IBM
• Linux - Introduction to Linux
• Runlevel - Wikipedia

MacOS

• macOS version history (2001+) - Wikipedia
• Classic Mac OS (1984-2001) - Wikipedia
• Based on NeXT, based on BSD Unix -

NeXT

• NeXTSTEP - Wikipedia - the O/S
  
• NeXT - Wikipedia

Linux

• Linux - Wikipedia
• History of Linux - Wikipedia
• List of Linux distributions - Wikipedia
• Linux distribution - Wikipedia
• Linux kernel - Wikipedia
• Linus Torvalds - Wikipedia

Minix

• minix
  My Notes from Tanenbaum's book (partial).

Unix

• Unix - Wikipedia
• History of Unix - Wikipedia
• List of Unix systems - Wikipedia
• List of Unix commands - Wikipedia

POSIX - API

• POSIX - Wikipedia