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