MOS (operating system)

This article is about the Soviet clone of Unix. For the Acorn Computers operating system, see Acorn MOS. For the Soviet clone of VAX/VMS, see OpenVMS § Influence.

Mobile Operating System (MOS; Russian: Моби́льная Операцио́нная Систе́ма (МОС)) is an operating system, a Soviet clone of Unix from the 1980s.^[1]

Mobile Operating System (MOS)

OS family	Unix-like
Working state	Current
Source model	Closed source
Final release	M OS-12
Available in	Russian
Platforms	SM EVM, ES EVM, Elbrus, PDP-11 clones
Kernel type	Monolithic
License	Proprietary

Overview

This operating system is commonly found on SM EVM minicomputers; it was also ported to ES EVM and Elbrus. MOS is also used by high-end PDP-11 clones.

Modifications of MOS include MNOS, DEMOS, INMOS [ru], etc.

See also

• List of Soviet computer systems