Operating systems timeline

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This article presents a timeline of events in the history of computer operating systems from 1960 to 2006. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the History of operating systems.

Contents 1 1950s 2 1960s 3 1970s 4 1980s 5 1990s 6 2000s 7 External links

[edit] 1950s

• 1956
  • GM-NAA I/O
• 1959
  • SHARE Operating System

[edit] 1960s

• 1960
  • IBSYS
• 1961
  • CTSS
  • MCP (Burroughs Large Systems)
• 1962
  • GCOS
• 1964
  • EXEC 8
  • OS/360 (Announced)
  • TOPS-10
• 1965
  • Multics (Announced)
  • OS/360 (Shipped)
  • Tape Operating System (TOS)
• 1966
  • DOS/360 (IBM)
  • MS/8
• 1967
  • ACP (IBM)
  • CP/CMS
  • ITS
  • WAITS
• 1969
  • TENEX
  • Unix

[edit] 1970s

• 1970
  • DOS/BATCH 11 (PDP-11)
• 1971
  • OS/8
• 1972
  • MFT (operating system)
  • MVT
  • RDOS
  • SVS
  • VM/CMS
• 1973
  • Alto OS
  • RSX-11D
  • RT-11
  • VME
• 1974
  • MVS (MVS/XA)
• 1975
  • BS2000
• 1976
  • CP/M
  • TOPS-20
• 1978
  • Apple DOS 3.1 (First Apple OS)
  • TripOS
  • VMS
  • Lisp Machine (CADR)
• 1979
  • POS
  • NLTSS

[edit] 1980s

• 1980
  • OS-9
  • QDOS
  • SOS
  • Pilot (operating system)
  • Xenix
• 1981
  • MS-DOS
• 1982
  • Commodore DOS
  • SunOS (1.0)
  • Ultrix
• 1983
  • Lisa Office System 7/7
  • Coherent
  • Novell NetWare
  • ProDOS
• 1984
  • Macintosh OS (System 1.0)
  • MSX-DOS
  • QNX
  • UniCOS
• 1985
  • AmigaOS
  • Atari TOS
  • MIPS OS
  • Oberon operating system
  • Microsoft Windows 1.0 (First Windows)
• 1986
  • AIX
  • GS-OS
  • HP-UX
• 1987
  • Arthur
  • IRIX (3.0 is first SGI version)
  • Minix
  • OS/2 (1.0)
  • Microsoft Windows 2.0
• 1988
  • A/UX (Apple Computer)
  • LynxOS
  • Macintosh OS (System 6)
  • MVS/ESA
  • OS/400
• 1989
  • NeXTSTEP (1.0)
  • RISC OS
  • SCO Unix (Release 3)

[edit] 1990s

• 1990
  • Amiga OS 2.0
  • BeOS (v1)
  • OSF/1
  • Windows 3.0
• 1991
  • Linux (basis of free Unix-like operating system distributions)
  • Macintosh OS (System 7)
• 1992
  • 386BSD 0.1
  • Amiga OS 3.0
  • Solaris 2.0 (Successor to SunOS 4.x; based on SVR4 instead of BSD)
  • Windows 3.1
• 1993
  • Plan 9 (First Edition)
  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
  • Windows NT 3.1 (First version of NT)
• 1995
  • Digital UNIX (aka Tru64 )
  • OpenBSD
  • OS/390
  • Windows 95
• 1996
  • Mac OS 7.6 (First officially-named Mac OS)
  • Windows NT 4.0
• 1997
  • Inferno
  • Mac OS 8
  • SkyOS
• 1998
  • Solaris 7 (First 64-bit Solaris release. Names from this point drop "2.", otherwise would've been Solaris 2.7)
  • Windows 98
• 1999
  • AROS (Boot for the first time in Stand Alone version)
  • Mac OS 9
  • Windows 98 Second Edition

[edit] 2000s

• 2000
  • AtheOS
  • MorphOS
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows Me
• 2001
  • Amiga OS 4.0 (May 2001)
  • Mac OS X v10.0 and v10.1
  • Windows XP
  • z/OS
• 2002
  • Windows XP 64-bit Edition
  • Syllable
  • Mac OS X v10.2
• 2003
  • Windows Server 2003 (March 28, 2003)
  • Mac OS X v10.3
• 2005
  • Mac OS X v10.4
• 2007
  • Windows Vista

[edit] External links

• 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 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s