Timeline of operating systems

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This article presents a timeline of events in the history of computer operating systems from 1954 to 2008. 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 See also 8 External links 9 References

[edit] 1950s

• 1954
  • MIT's operating system made for UNIVAC 1103^[1]
• 1955
  • General Motors Operating System made for IBM 701^[2]
• 1956
  • GM-NAA I/O for IBM 704, based on General Motors Operating System
• 1959
  • SHARE Operating System, based on GM-NAA I/O

[edit] 1960s

• 1960
  • IBSYS
• 1961
  • CTSS
  • MCP (Burroughs Large Systems)
• 1962
  • GCOS
• 1964
  • EXEC 8
  • OS/360 (Announced)
  • TOPS-10
  • Dartmouth Time Sharing System
• 1965
  • Multics (Announced)
  • OS/360 (Shipped)
  • Tape Operating System (TOS)
• 1966
  • DOS/360 (IBM)
  • MS/8
• 1967
  • ACP (IBM)
  • CP/CMS
  • ITS
  • WAITS
• 1968
  • TSS-8 (PDP-8)
  • THE multiprogramming system
• 1969
  • TENEX
  • Unix
  • RC 4000 Multiprogramming System
  • Multics (opened for paying customers in October^[3])

[edit] 1970s

• 1970
  • DOS-11 (PDP-11)
• 1971
  • RSTS-11 2A-19 (First released version; PDP-11)
  • OS/8
• 1972
  • MFT
  • MVT
  • RDOS
  • SVS
  • VM/CMS
• 1973
  • Alto OS
  • RSX-11D
  • RT-11
  • VME
• 1974
  • MVS (MVS/XA)
  • DOS-11 V09-20C (Last stable release, June 1974)
  • SINTRAN III
• 1975
  • BS2000
• 1976
  • CP/M
  • TOPS-20
  • Cray Operating System
• 1977
  • FLEX
  • TRS-DOS
  • Virtual Memory System (VMS) V1.0 (Initial commercial release, October 25)
• 1978
  • Apple DOS
  • TripOS
  • UCSD p-System (First released version)
  • Lisp Machine (CADR)
• 1979
  • Atari DOS
  • POS
  • NLTSS

[edit] 1980s

• 1980
  • OS-9
  • 86-DOS
  • SOS
  • Pilot (operating system)
  • Xenix
• 1981
  • PC-DOS
  • MS-DOS
  • Business Operating System
  • Acorn MOS
• 1982
  • Commodore DOS
  • SunOS (1.0)
  • Ultrix
• 1983
  • Lisa Office System 7/7
  • Coherent
  • Novell NetWare (S-Net)
  • ProDOS
• 1984
  • Macintosh OS (System 1.0)
  • MSX-DOS
  • Sinclair QDOS
  • QNX
  • UNICOS
• 1985
  • AmigaOS
  • Atari TOS
  • MIPS OS
  • Oberon
  • Microsoft Windows 1.0 (First Windows)
• 1986
  • AIX 1.0
  • GS-OS
  • HP-UX
  • GEOS
• 1987
  • Arthur
  • IRIX (3.0 is first SGI version)
  • Minix
  • OS/2 (1.0)
  • Microsoft Windows 2.0
• 1988
  • A/UX (Apple Computer)
  • RISC iX
  • LynxOS
  • Macintosh OS (System 6)
  • MVS/ESA
  • OS/400
  • TOPS-10 7.04 (Last stable release, July 1988)
• 1989
  • EPOC
  • NEXTSTEP (1.0)
  • RISC OS (First release was to be called Arthur 2, but was renamed to RISC OS 2, and was first sold as RISC OS 2.00 in April 1989)
  • SCO Unix (Release 3)

[edit] 1990s

• 1990
  • AmigaOS 2.0
  • BeOS (v1)
  • OSF/1
  • Windows 3.0
  • AIX 3.0
• 1991
  • Linux (basis of free Unix-like operating system distributions) (distribution timeline)
  • Macintosh OS (System 7)
• 1992
  • 386BSD 0.1
  • AmigaOS 3.0
  • 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)
  • Windows 3.1
• 1993
  • Plan 9 (First Edition)
  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
  • Windows NT 3.1 (First version of NT)
• 1994
  • AIX 4.0
• 1995
  • Digital UNIX (aka Tru64 UNIX)
  • OpenBSD
  • OS/390
  • Ultrix 4.5 (Last major release)
  • 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
  • RT-11 5.7 (Last stable release, October 1998)
• 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 (first of the Windows NT line of operating systems to drop it's 'NT' designation)
  • Windows Me (last of the Windows 9x line of operating systems to be produced and sold)
  • Solaris 8
  • HP-UX 11.11
• 2001
  • AmigaOS 4.0 (May 2001)
  • eComStation 1.0 (July 10)
  • Mac OS X v10.0 and v10.1
  • Haiku (operating system) (formerly known as Open BeOS, began development)
  • Windows XP (succeeded Windows Me and Windows 2000, successfully merging the 'professional' NT line of operating systems with the 'home' 9x line of operating systems)
  • z/OS
  • AIX 5.1
  • OS/2 4.52 (latest IBM version, released for both desktop and server systems in December 2001)
• 2002
  • Windows XP 64-bit Edition
  • Syllable
  • Mac OS X v10.2
  • Solaris 9
  • AIX 5.2
• 2003
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Mac OS X v10.3
  • HP-UX 11.23
• 2004
  • AIX 5.3
  • Ubuntu 4.10
• 2005
  • Mac OS X v10.4
  • Solaris 10
• 2006
  • Windows Vista
  • SymbOS
• 2007
  • Mac OS X v10.5
  • AIX 6.1
  • HP-UX 11.31
• 2008
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Singularity 1.1 (initial public release, March 4)
  • Windows Vista Service Pack 1
  • Windows XP Service Pack 3
  • Ubuntu 8.04

[edit] See also

• List of operating systems
• Timeline of Linux distributions

[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

[edit] References

1. ^ MIT's (the world's?) first Operating System (1954)
2. ^ EARLY OPERATING SYSTEMS
3. ^ Multics History