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FlexOS was a modular, real-time, multiuser, multitasking operating system that Digital Research's Flexible Automation Business Unit in Monterey, California built in 1985, formally adopting the FlexOS name on October 1, 1986 as it moved on from earlier versions of Concurrent DOS. It targeted computer-integrated manufacturing, laboratory, retail and financial markets, and Digital Research wrote it in C so it could be ported across processor families including the Intel 80186, 80286 and 80386 and Motorola's 68000 series, giving it very low interrupt latency and fast context switching for industrial use. By 1990 and 1991 its customers included FANUC, IBM, Siemens and Toshiba. Novell acquired Digital Research in July 1991 and sold FlexOS on to Integrated Systems Inc. for three million dollars in 1994; its final release was version 2.33 in May 1998. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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License
Proprietary (Closed Source) 1
Status
Status
Discontinued 1
Year
1986 2
FAQs

Was FlexOS used in any well known commercial product?

IBM based its 4690 OS Version 1 on FlexOS 2.32.

Yes. In July 1993 IBM announced the adoption of FlexOS version 2.32 as the basis of its IBM 4690 OS Version 1. IBM pre-released it on 24 September 1993 and made it generally available from 25 March 1994.
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1. Wikipedia: FlexOS
  • Infobox: license
    Proprietary
  • In Field: Operating Systems, Lead sentence
    FlexOS is a discontinued modular real-time multiuser multitasking operating system (RTOS) designed for computer-integrated manufacturing, laboratory, retail and financial markets.
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2. Wikidata: FlexOS
  • Wikidata Q2560413, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q2560413 P571 (inception)
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