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title: "What are the different operating systems?"  
description: "What are the different operating systems?"  
author: "Kalin"  
published: 2022-04-02  
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tags: ["troubleshooting", "operating systems"]  
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# What are the different operating systems?

What are the different [operating systems](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/332551/operating-systems-trends-and-innovations-in-2023)?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

**The different operating [systems](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/85451/best-travel-systems-for-newborns-to-pick):**

- **MS-DOS,** or Microsoft Disk Operating System, is a command-line operating system for IBM compatible computers with x86 microprocessors.
- **Windows** is a Microsoft operating system that runs on common x86 Intel and AMD CPUs.
- **The Linux OS** is an open source operating system project that is based on UNIX and is a freely available, cross-platform operating system.
- **Solaris,** often known as SunOS, is a Unix-based operating system developed by Sun for their line of Scalable Processor Architecture-based CPUs (SPARC) as well as Intel-based processors.
- Until its discontinuation in 2014, **Symbian OS** was the world's most extensively used smartphone operating system based on ARM architecture. It was created by Symbiant Ltd, a collaboration between PDA and smartphone manufacturers such as Psion, Motorola, Ericsson, and Nokia.
- **Android** is a Linux-based operating system developed by Google that is primarily intended for touch-screen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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