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All Operating Systems Software

This group gathers pioneers of software and its engineering whose primary contribution was an operating system, kernel or the system software that manages a computer hardware and resources, including time sharing systems, Unix and its descendants, microkernels, personal computer and mobile operating systems, and the file systems, shells and virtual memory schemes built into them. It follows the Operating Systems second-level heading of the ACM Computing Classification System under Software and its engineering. Their shared work is the software layer that runs a machine and manages its resources for every other program, as distinct from an application, a language or a network protocol.

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Alan Cox (computer programmer)

Software And Its Engineering

Alexia Massalin

Software And Its Engineering

Allan L. Scherr

Software And Its Engineering

Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau

Software And Its Engineering

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Software And Its Engineering

Avie Tevanian

Software And Its Engineering

Benjamin Mako Hill

Software And Its Engineering

Bill Joy

Software And Its Engineering

BLIS/COBOL

Operating System

Brian Fox

Software And Its Engineering

Carl Sassenrath

Software And Its Engineering

Darrell Long

Software And Its Engineering

Dave Cutler

Software And Its Engineering

Edward G. Coffman Jr.

Software And Its Engineering

Evi Nemeth

Software And Its Engineering

Fernando J. Corbato

Software And Its Engineering

Gary Kildall

Software And Its Engineering

Gennady Stolyarov I

Software And Its Engineering

Gernot Heiser

Software And Its Engineering

Glenda Schroeder

Software And Its Engineering

Hans Reiser

Software And Its Engineering

Ian Murdock

Software And Its Engineering

Ingo Molnár

Software And Its Engineering

Jeff Bonwick

Software And Its Engineering

Jochen Liedtke

Software And Its Engineering

John Lions

Software And Its Engineering

Judy Clapp

Software And Its Engineering

Keith Bostic

Software And Its Engineering

Ken Sakamura

Software And Its Engineering

Ken Thompson

Software And Its Engineering

Kit Cosper

Software And Its Engineering

Linus Torvalds

Software And Its Engineering

Lynne Jolitz

Software And Its Engineering

M. A. Rothman

Software And Its Engineering

Marc McDonald

Software And Its Engineering

Mark Bolzern

Software And Its Engineering

Mary Allen Wilkes

Software And Its Engineering

Matthew Dillon

Software And Its Engineering

Miguel de Icaza

Software And Its Engineering

Owen Mock

Software And Its Engineering

Patrick Volkerding

Software And Its Engineering

Paul Charlton

Software And Its Engineering

Peter J. Denning

Software And Its Engineering

Poul-Henning Kamp

Software And Its Engineering

Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau

Software And Its Engineering

Richard Rashid

Software And Its Engineering

Richard Stallman

Software And Its Engineering

Stephen R. Bourne

Software And Its Engineering

Terry A. Davis

Software And Its Engineering

Tony Tebby

Software And Its Engineering
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1. Wikipedia: Mainframe computer
Wikimedia FoundationMainframe computer, lead section, 1960s architecture sentence
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Most large-scale computer-system architectures were established in the 1960s, but they continue to evolve.
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Brian Fox (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Brian Fox, Lead section
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He is the original author of the GNU Bash shell
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Ian Murdock (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Ian Murdock, Lead section [in-field]
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known for being the founder of the Debian project and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company
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BLIS/COBOL (Wikipedia)
Has Member: BLIS/COBOL, Lead sentence
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is a discontinued operating system
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Tony Tebby (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Tony Tebby, Lead
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Tony Tebby is a computer programmer and the designer of Qdos, the computer operating system used in the Sinclair QL personal computer, while
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Owen Mock (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Owen Mock, Lead
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Owen R. Mock was a computer software designer and programmer who pioneered computer operating systems in the 1950s. In 1954 Mock was part of
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Wikipedia: Valerie Aurora
Has Member: Valerie Aurora, Lead paragraph
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Aurora is also known within the Linux community for advocating new developments in filesystems in Linux
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Lynne Jolitz (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Lynne Jolitz, Lead
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she created 386BSD, the first open-source Unix-based operating system for personal computers to be distributed over the Internet
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Patrick Volkerding (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Patrick Volkerding, Lead and infobox
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Patrick Volkerding (born October 20, 1966) is the founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution.
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Transaction Management eXecutive (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Transaction Management eXecutive, Features
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It was a multiuser, multitasking 32-bit operating system.
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Hans Reiser (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Hans Reiser, Career section
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Prior to his incarceration, Reiser created the ReiserFS computer file system
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Miguel de Icaza (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Miguel de Icaza, Career section
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One of the earliest pieces of software he wrote for Linux was the Midnight Commander file manager in 1994
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Marc McDonald (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Marc McDonald, Lead, file system, in-group
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its file system (a variant of FAT) influenced Tim Paterson's QDOS
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Alan Cox (computer programmer) (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Alan Cox (computer programmer), Involvement in the Linux kernel, in-group
Quote, Has Member: Alan Cox (computer programmer), Involvement in the Linux kernel, in-group
He then became one of the main developers and maintainers of the whole kernel.
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Ingo Molnár (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Ingo Molnár, Work, kernel contributions
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Some of his additions to the Linux kernel include
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Benjamin Mako Hill (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Benjamin Mako Hill, Debian, in-group
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Since 1999, Hill has been an active member of Debian.
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Alexia Massalin (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Alexia Massalin, Lead, Synthesis kernel, in-group
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designed the Synthesis kernel, a small kernel with a Unix compatibility layer
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Paul Charlton (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Paul Charlton, Timeline, Carbon API
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Carbon API for Mac OS
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Daniel Murphy (computer scientist) (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Daniel Murphy (computer scientist), Biography, TOPS-20
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heading the team responsible for the development of the TOPS-20 operating system
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