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This dimension names the person or organization credited with creating a computing system. Wikipedia notes that an operating system "manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs," work that is always designed and built by a named creator. Browsing this way collects every system credited to the same creator.

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Adam Dunkels

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Alan Turing

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Allen Coombs

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Andrew Booth

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Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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Andy Rubin

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Bram Cohen

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Brian Kernighan

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Butler W. Lampson

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Charles Babbage

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Charles P. Thacker

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Christopher Strachey

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D. Richard Hipp

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Daniel Abadi

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Daniel Slotnick

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Danny Hillis

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Dave Cutler

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David Cheriton

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David Wheeler

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Dennis Ritchie

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Don Estridge

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Douglas Comer

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Dwight Merriman

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Edsger W. Dijkstra

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Feng-hsiung Hsu

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Fernando J. Corbato

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Frederic C. Williams

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Gary Kildall

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Gene Amdahl

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Gerard Salton

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Gordon Bell

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Harry Huskey

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Howard Aiken

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J. Presper Eckert

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James E. Thornton

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Jarkko Oikarinen

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Jay Forrester

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Jerrier A. Haddad

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Jochen Liedtke

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John Mauchly

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John Ousterhout

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John Pinkerton

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John Vincent Atanasoff

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John von Neumann

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Jon Postel

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Ken Thompson

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Konrad Zuse

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Larry Tesler

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Linus Torvalds

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Louis Pouzin

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Margo Seltzer

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Mario Tchou

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Mark P. McCahill

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Martin Richards

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Maston Beard

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Maurice Wilkes

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Michael Stonebraker

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Michael Widenius

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Nathaniel Rochester

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Nicholas Metropolis

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Paul Mockapetris

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Pier Giorgio Perotto

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Richard Altwasser

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Robert Everett

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Robert Kahn

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Robert Metcalfe

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Robert Rex Seeber Jr.

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Roger Needham

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Salvatore Sanfilippo

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Sanjay Ghemawat

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Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev

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Seymour Cray

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Steve Scott (computer architect)

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Steve Vickers (computer scientist)

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Steve Wozniak

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Steven M. Bellovin

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Tim Berners-Lee

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Tom Kilburn

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Tom Lane (computer scientist)

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Tommy Flowers

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Trevor Pearcey

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Vint Cerf

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