This article presents a timeline of events in the history of computer operating systems from 1951 to the current day. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the History of operating systems.
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1950s[edit]
- 1951
- LEO I 'Lyons Electronic Office'[1] was the commercial development of EDSAC computing platform, supported by British firm J. Lyons and Co.
- 1954
- MIT's Tape Director operating system made for UNIVAC 1103[2][3]
- 1955
- 1956
- GM-NAA I/O for IBM 704, based on General Motors Operating System
- 1957
- Atlas Supervisor (Manchester University) (Atlas computer project start)
- BESYS (Bell Labs), for IBM 7090 and IBM 7094
- 1958
- University of Michigan Executive System (UMES), for IBM 704, 709, and 7090
- 1959
- SHARE Operating System (SOS), based on GM-NAA I/O
1960s[edit]
- 1960
- IBSYS (IBM for its 7090 and 7094)
- KDF9 Timesharing Director (English Electric) An early, fully hardware secured, fully pre-emptive process switching, multi-programming operating system for KDF9 (Announced)
- 1961
- 1962
- Atlas Supervisor (Manchester University) (Atlas computer commissioned)
- GCOS (GE's General Comprehensive Operating System, originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor)
- 1963
- AN/FSQ-32, another early time-sharing system begun
- Titan Supervisor, early time-sharing system begun
- 1964
- Berkeley Timesharing System (for Scientific Data Systems' SDS 940)
- Dartmouth Time Sharing System (Dartmouth College's DTSS for GE computers)
- OS/360 (IBM's primary OS for its S/360 series) (Announced)
- SCOPE (CDC 3000 series)
- TOPS-10 (DEC, the name TOPS-10 wasn't adopted until 1970)
- EXEC 8 (UNIVAC)
- 1965
- THE multiprogramming system (Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven)
- Multics (MIT, GE, Bell Labs for the GE-645) (Announced)
- BOS/360 (IBM's Basic Operating System)
- TOS/360 (IBM's Tape Operating System)
- TSOS (later VMOS) (RCA)
- Pick operating system
- 1966
- OS/360 (IBM's primary OS for its S/360 series) PCP and MFT (Shipped)
- DOS/360 (IBM's Disk Operating System)
- MS/8 (Richard F. Lary's DEC PDP-8 system)
- 1967
- CP/CMS (IBM, also known as CP-67)
- Michigan Terminal System (MTS)[5] (time-sharing system for the IBM S/360-67 and successors)
- ITS (MIT's Incompatible Timesharing System for the DEC PDP-6 and PDP-10)
- ORVYL (Stanford University's time-sharing system for the IBM S/360)
- TSS/360 (IBM's Time-sharing System for the S/360-67, never officially released, canceled in 1969 and again in 1971)
- OS/360 MVT
- WAITS (SAIL, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, time-sharing system for DEC PDP-6 and PDP-10, later TOPS-10)
- 1968
- Airline Control Program (ACP) (IBM)
- THE multiprogramming system (Eindhoven University of Technology)
- TSS-8 (DEC for the PDP-8)
- 1969
- TENEX (Bolt, Beranek and Newman for DEC systems, later TOPS-20)
- Unics (later Unix) (AT&T, initially on DEC computers)
- RC 4000 Multiprogramming System (RC)
- Multics (MIT, GE, Bell Labs for the GE-645 and later the Honeywell 6180) (opened for paying customers in October[6])
1970s[edit]
- 1970
- DOS-11 (PDP-11)
- 1971
- 1972
- 1973
- 1974
- DOS-11 V09-20C (Last stable release, June 1974)
- SINTRAN III
- MONECS
- Multi-Programming Executive (MPE) - Hewlett Packard
- 1975
- CP/M
- BS2000 V2.0 (First released version)
- Version 6 Unix
- 1976
- Cambridge CAP computer[7] – All operating system procedures written in ALGOL 68C, with some closely associated protected procedures in BCPL.
- Cray Operating System
- FLEX[8]
- TOPS-20
- 1977
- 1BSD
- KERNAL
- OASIS operating system
- TRS-DOS
- Virtual Memory System (VMS) V1.0 (Initial commercial release, October 25)
- 1978
- 2BSD
- Apple DOS
- HDOS 1.0
- TRIPOS
- UCSD p-System (First released version)
- Lisp machine (CADR)
- 1979
1980s[edit]
- 1980
- 1981
- Acorn MOS
- Business Operating System
- Aegis SR1 (First Apollo/DOMAIN systems shipped on March 27[10])
- PC-DOS
- Pilot (Xerox Star operating system)
- MS-DOS
- UTS
- 1982
- Commodore DOS
- LDOS (By Logical Systems, Inc. – For the Radio Shack TRS-80 Models I, II & III)
- QNX
- Sun UNIX (later SunOS) 0.7
- Ultrix
- 1983
- Lisa Office System 7/7
- Coherent
- GNU (project start)
- Novell NetWare (S-Net)
- ProDOS
- SunOS 1.0
- 1984
- 1985
- AmigaOS
- Atari TOS
- DG/UX
- MIPS RISC/os
- Oberon – written in Oberon
- SunOS 2.0
- Version 8 Unix
- Windows 1.01
- Xenix 2.0
- 1986
- 1987
- Arthur
- IRIX (3.0 is first SGI version)
- MINIX 1.0
- BS2000 V9.0
- OS/2 (1.0)
- PC-MOS/386
- Windows 2.0
- 1988
- 1989
1990s[edit]
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
- 386BSD 0.1
- AmigaOS 3.0
- Amiga Unix 2.01 (Latest stable release)
- RSTS/E 10.1 (Last stable release, September 1992)
- Solaris 2.0 (Successor to SunOS 4.x; based on SVR4 instead of BSD)
- OpenVMS V1.0 (First OpenVMS AXP (Alpha) specific version, November 1992)
- OS/2 2.0 (First i386 32 bit based version)
- Plan 9 First Edition (First public release was made available to universities)
- Windows 3.1
- 1993
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- Newton OS
- Windows NT 3.1 (First Windows NT kernel public release)
- Open Genera 1.0
- IBM 4690 Operating System
- Novell NetWare 4
- OS/2 2.1
- Slackware 1.0
- Spring
- 1994
- 1995
- Digital UNIX (aka Tru64 UNIX)
- OpenBSD
- OS/390
- Plan 9 Second Edition (Commercial second release version was made available to the general public)
- Ultrix 4.5 (Last major release)
- Windows 95
- 1996
- Mac OS 7.6 (First officially-named Mac OS)
- Windows NT 4.0
- RISC OS 3.6
- AIX 4.2
- OS/2 4.0
- Palm OS
- 1997
- 1998
- Solaris 7 (First 64-bit Solaris release. Names from this point drop "2.", otherwise would've been Solaris 2.7)
- Windows 98
- RT-11 5.7 (Last stable release, October 1998)
- Novell NetWare 5
- Junos
- 1999
2000s[edit]
2010s[edit]
Please do not add unreleased or "future" operating systems to this list EVEN if the release date is confirmed by the developer.
See also[edit]
- Comparison of operating systems
- List of operating systems
- List of real-time operating systems
- Timeline of DOS operating systems
- Timeline of Linux distributions (Diagram 1992–2010)
Category links[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Early Electronic Computers (BBC)
- ^ MIT's first Operating System (1954)
- ^ Douglas Ross. 1986. A personal view of the personal work station: some firsts in the Fifties. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on The history of personal workstations (HPW '86), John R White and Kathi Anderson (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19-48. DOI=10.1145/12178.12180 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/12178.12180
- ^ EARLY OPERATING SYSTEMS
- ^ "Michigan Terminal System: Time Line". Clock.org. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
- ^ Multics History
- ^ http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/72418/cap.pdf
- ^ FLEX User Group – History
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ Apollo/DOMAIN Computers
- ^ "A Brief History of RISC OS", Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Inferno Downloads", Vita Nuova Holdings, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Microsoft Releases Windows 2000 to Manufacturing", Microsoft News Center, 1999-12-15, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Plan 9 from Bell Labs Overview", Bell Labs, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ Balaban, Alexandre (2000), Test de MorphOS 0.1 (in French), retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Microsoft Announces Immediate Availability Of Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me)", Microsoft News Center, 2000-09-14, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "AmigaOS 3.9 release", Amiga History (UK), 2000-12-04, retrieved 2012-07-22
- ^ Schmidt, Ralph (2001-02-15), New MorphOS 0.4 Release, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ Project History, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Windows XP to Take the PC to New Heights", Microsoft News Center, 2001-08-24, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Microsoft Unveils Plans for 64-Bit Windows Platform".
- ^ "Plan 9 From Bell Labs Fourth Release Notes", Bell Labs, April 2002, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "What is the history of Syllable?", Frequently Asked Questions, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Jaguar “Unleashed” at 10:20 p.m. Tonight", Apple Inc., 2002-08-23, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Windows XP 64-bit Edition for Itanium systems, Version 2003 Press release", Microsoft News Center, 2003-03-28, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ Kernel.org archive, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ News digest August 2006, August 2006, retrieved 2011-11-19
External links[edit]
- http://www.levenez.com/unix/ — Timeline of UNIX 1969 and its descendants at present
- Concise Microsoft O.S. Timeline — A color-coded concise timeline for various Microsoft operating systems (1981–present)
- Bitsavers — an effort to capture, salvage, and archive historical computer software and manuals from minicomputers and mainframes of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s
- A brief history of operating systems
- Microsoft operating system time-line
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