Timeline of operating systems
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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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[edit] 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]
- 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
[edit] 1960s
- 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
- Titan Supervisor, early time-sharing system begun
- AN/FSQ-32, another early time-sharing system begun
- 1964
- EXEC 8 (UNIVAC)
- OS/360 (IBM's primary OS for its S/360 series) (Announced)
- TOPS-10 (DEC, the name TOPS-10 wasn't adopted until 1970)
- Berkeley Timesharing System (for Scientific Data Systems' SDS 940)
- Dartmouth Time Sharing System (Dartmouth College's DTSS for GE computers)
- 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)
- 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)[4] (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[5])
[edit] 1970s
- 1970
- DOS-11 (PDP-11)
- 1971
- 1972
- 1973
- 1974
- DOS-11 V09-20C (Last stable release, June 1974)
- SINTRAN III
- MONECS
- 1975
- CP/M
- BS2000 V2.0 (First released version)
- Sixth Edition Unix
- 1976
- Cambridge CAP computer[1] – All operating system procedures written in ALGOL 68C, with some closely associated protected procedures in BCPL.
- Cray Operating System
- FLEX[6]
- 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
[edit] 1980s
- 1980
- 1981
- Acorn MOS
- Business Operating System
- Aegis SR1 (First Apollo/DOMAIN systems shipped on March 27[8])
- 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 OS
- Oberon – written in Oberon-2
- SunOS 2.0
- Version 8 Unix
- Windows 1.0
- 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
[edit] 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
[edit] 2000s
[edit] 2010s
| Date | Windows | Mac | BSD | Linux | Others |
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| 2010–01 | AmigaOS 4.1 Update 1 Android 2.1 |
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| 2010–02 | Linux 2.6.33 | ||||
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| 2010–04 | DragonFly BSD 2.6 | Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) | AmigaOS 4.1 Update 2 | ||
| 2010–05 | OpenBSD 4.7 | Linux 2.6.34 Fedora 13 |
Android 2.2 | ||
| 2010–06 | MorphOS 2.5 OpenVMS 8.4 |
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| 2010–07 | openSUSE 11.3 | ||||
| 2010–08 | Linux 2.6.35 | ||||
| 2010–09 | Solaris 10 9/10 | ||||
| 2010–10 | DragonFly BSD 2.8 | Linux 2.6.36 Fedora 14 Ubuntu 10.10 |
MorphOS 2.6 | ||
| 2010–11 | NetBSD 5.1 OpenBSD 4.8 |
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| 2010–12 | Android 2.3 MorphOS 2.7 |
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| 2011–01 | Linux 2.6.37 | ||||
| 2011–02 | Windows 7 Service Pack 1 | Debian 6.0 | Android 3.0 | ||
| 2011–03 | Linux 2.6.38 openSUSE 11.4 |
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| 2011–04 | DragonFly BSD 2.10 | Ubuntu 11.04 | |||
| 2011–05 | OpenBSD 4.9 | Linux 2.6.39 Fedora 15 |
Android 3.1 | ||
| 2011–06 | |||||
| 2011–07 | Mac OS X v10.7 "Lion" | Linux 3.0 | Android 3.2 | ||
| 2011–08 | |||||
| 2011–09 | |||||
| 2011–10 | Linux 3.1 Ubuntu 11.10 |
Android 4.0 | |||
| 2011–11 | OpenBSD 5.0 | Fedora 16 openSUSE 12.1 |
BS2000/OSD 9.0 Solaris 11 11/11 |
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| 2011–12 | |||||
| 2012–01 | FreeBSD 9.0 | Linux 3.2 | FreeDOS 1.1 | ||
| 2012–02 | DragonFly BSD 3.0 | ReactOS 0.3.14 Minix 3.2 |
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| 2012–03 |
[edit] See also
- Comparison of operating systems
- List of operating systems
- List of real-time operating systems
- Timeline of x86 DOS operating systems
- Timeline of Linux distributions (Diagram 1992–2010)
[edit] Category links
[edit] References
- ^ Early Electronic Computers (BBC)
- ^ MIT's first Operating System (1954)
- ^ EARLY OPERATING SYSTEMS
- ^ http://www.clock.org/~jss/work/mts/timeline.html
- ^ Multics History
- ^ FLEX User Group – History
- ^ http://www.byte.com/art/9412/sec13/art2.htm
- ^ Apollo/DOMAIN Computers
- ^ "A Brief History of RISC OS", Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club, http://www.wrocc.org.uk/riscos/history.shtml, retrieved 2011-11-19
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- ^ "Microsoft Releases Windows 2000 to Manufacturing", Microsoft News Center, 1999-12-15, http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1999/Dec99/W2KrtmPR.mspx, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Plan 9 from Bell Labs Overview", Bell Labs, http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/about.html, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ Balaban, Alexandre (2000) (in French), Test de MorphOS 0.1, http://obligement.free.fr/articles/morphos01.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/press/2000/sept00/availabilitypr.mspx, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ Schmidt, Ralph (2001-02-15), New MorphOS 0.4 Release, http://amiga.czex.com/history/2_01e.html, 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/press/2001/aug01/08-24WinXPRTMPR.mspx, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ "Microsoft Unveils Plans for 64-Bit Windows Platform". http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/may01/05-2364bitpr.mspx.
- ^ "Plan 9 From Bell Labs Fourth Release Notes", Bell Labs, April 2002, http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/release4.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/press/2003/mar03/03-28WinXP64BitPR.mspx, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ Kernel.org archive, http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/, retrieved 2011-11-19
- ^ News digest August 2006, August 2006, http://www.hoise.com/primeur/06/articles/contentsmonthly200608.html, retrieved 2011-11-19
[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
- A brief history of operating systems
- Microsoft operating system time-line
