| Timeline of operating systemsThis 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. 1950s- 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
- General Motors Operating System made for IBM 701[4]
- 1956
- 1957
- 1958
- 1959
1960s- 1960
- 1961
- 1962
- Atlas Supervisor (Manchester University) (Atlas computer commissioned)
- GCOS (GE's General Comprehensive Operating System, originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor)
- 1963
- Titan Supervisor, early time-sharing system begun
- AN/FSQ-32, another early time-sharing system begun
- 1964
- 1965
- 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
- 1969
1970s- 1970
- 1971
- 1972
- 1973
- 1974
- 1975
- CP/M
- BS2000 V2.0 (First released version)
- Sixth Edition Unix
- 1976
- 1977
- 1978
- 1979
1980s- 1980
- 1981
- 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
- 1984
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988
- 1989
1990s- 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
- 1994
- 1995
- 1996
- 1997
- 1998
- 1999
- AROS (Boot for the first time in Stand Alone version)
- RISC OS 4
- Mac OS 9
- OS/2 4.5
- Windows 98 (2nd edition)
- Inferno Second Edition (Last distribution (Release 2.3, ca. July 1999) from Lucent's Inferno Business Unit)[12]
2000s 2010sPlease do not add unreleased or "future" operating systems to this list EVEN if the release date is confirmed by the developer. See also Category links References- ^ 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/10.1145/12178.1218 0
- ^ EARLY OPERATING SYSTEMS
- ^ "Michigan Terminal System: Time Line". Clock.org. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
- ^ Multics History
- ^ http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/72 418/cap.pdf
- ^ FLEX User Group – History
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ Apollo/DOMAIN Computers
- ^ "A Brief History of RISC OS", Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club, http://www.wrocc.org.uk/riscos/histor y.shtml, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Inferno Downloads", Vita Nuova Holdings, http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/down loads.html, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Microsoft Releases Windows 2000 to Manufacturing", Microsoft News Center, 1999-12-15, http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/pr ess/1999/Dec99/W2KrtmPR.mspx, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Plan 9 from Bell Labs Overview", Bell Labs, http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/abou t.html, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ Balaban, Alexandre (2000) (in French), Test de MorphOS 0.1, http://obligement.free.fr/articles/mo rphos01.php, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Microsoft Announces Immediate Availability Of Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me)", Microsoft News Center, 2000-09-14, http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/pr ess/2000/sept00/availabilitypr.mspx, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "AmigaOS 3.9 release", Amiga History (UK), 2000-12-04, http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/amigaos 39.html, retrieved 2012-07-22
- ^ Schmidt, Ralph (2001-02-15), New MorphOS 0.4 Release, http://amiga.czex.com/history/2_01e.h tml, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ Project History, http://haiku-os.org/about/history, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Windows XP to Take the PC to New Heights", Microsoft News Center, 2001-08-24, http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/pr ess/2001/aug01/08-24WinXPRTMPR.mspx, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Microsoft Unveils Plans for 64-Bit Windows Platform".
- ^ "Plan 9 From Bell Labs Fourth Release Notes", Bell Labs, April 2002, http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/re lease4.html, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "What is the history of Syllable?", Frequently Asked Questions, http://web.syllable.org/documentation /FAQ.html#1_2, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Jaguar “Unleashed” at 10:20 p.m. Tonight", Apple Inc., 2002-08-23, http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/ aug/23jaguar.html, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Windows XP 64-bit Edition for Itanium systems, Version 2003 Press release", Microsoft News Center, 2003-03-28, http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/pr ess/2003/mar03/03-28WinXP64BitPR.mspx, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ Kernel.org archive, http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kerne l/v2.6/, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ News digest August 2006, August 2006, http://www.hoise.com/primeur/06/artic les/contentsmonthly200608.html, retrieved 2011-11-19
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