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What are the different types of operating systems?

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There can be an infinite number of "types", depending on how you want to classify them. Free or proprietary? Realtime? Unix-like? 16, 32, or 64-bit? Server, desktop, or embedded? By kernel type? This question can't really be answered without better context.
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