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===MeikOS===
{{Infobox OS
| name = MeikOS
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| developer = Meiko Scientific
| family = [[Unix-like]]
| working state = Discontinued
| source model = [[Closed-source]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1987}}<!-- If known, add |mm|dd|df=yes -->
| discontinued = Yes
| latest release version = 3.06
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|1991}}<!-- If known, add |mm|dd|df=yes -->
| marketing target = Research
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| language = English
| update model = Compile from [[source code]]
| supported platforms = [[Transputer]]
| kernel type = [[Microkernel]]
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| ui = [[Command line interface]]
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| preceded by = [[MINIX]]
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MeikOS (also written as ''Meikos'' or ''MEiKOS'') is a [[Unix-like]] transputer [[operating system]] developed for the Computing Surface during the late 1980s.

MeikOS was derived from an early version of [[Minix]], extensively modified for the Computing Surface architecture. Unlike [[HeliOS]], another Unix-like transputer operating system, MeikOS is essentially a single-processor operating system with a distributed [[file system]]. MeikOS was intended for use with the ''Meiko Multiple Virtual Computing Surfaces'' (M²VCS) resource management software, which partitions the processors of a Computing Surface into ''domains'', manages user access to these domains, and provides inter-domain communication.

MeikOS has ''[[diskless]]'' and ''fileserver'' variants, the former running on the seat processor of an M²VCS domain, providing a [[command line]] user interface for a given user; the latter running on processors with attached [[SCSI]] hard disks, providing a remote file service (named ''Surface File System'' (SFS)) to instances of diskless MeikOS. The two can communicate via M²VCS.

MeikOS was made obsolete by the introduction of the In-Sun Computing Surface and the Meiko MK083 [[SPARC]] processor board, which allow [[SunOS]] and ''Sun Virtual Computing Surfaces'' (SVCS), later developed as ''VCS'' to take over the roles of MeikOS and M²VCS respectively. The last MeikOS release was MeikOS 3.06, in early 1991.