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This article presents a timeline of events in the history of computer operating systems from 1951 to 2009. 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 operating system made for UNIVAC 1103^[2]
1955
- General Motors Operating System made for IBM 701^[3]
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

1960
- IBSYS (IBM for its 7090 and 7094)
1961
- CTSS (MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System for the IBM 7094)
- MCP (Burroughs Master Control Program)
1962
- Atlas Supervisor (Manchester University) (Atlas computer commissioned)
- GCOS (GE's General Comprehensive Operating System, originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor)
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
- Multics (MIT, GE, Bell Labs for the GE-645) (Announced)
- BOS/360 (IBM's Basic Operating System)
- TOS/360 (IBM's Tape Operating System)
1966
- OS/360 (IBM's primary OS for its S/360 series) (Shipped)
- MFT
- 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)
- 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)
- TSS-8 (DEC for the PDP-8)
- THE multiprogramming system (Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven)
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])

1970s

1970
- DOS-11 (PDP-11)
1971
- RSTS-11 2A-19 (First released version; PDP-11)
- OS/8
1972
- RDOS
- SVS
- VM/CMS
1973
- Эльбрус-1 (Elbrus-1) - Soviet computer - created using high-level language uЭль-76 (AL-76/ALGOL 68).
- VME - implementation language S3 (ALGOL 68).
- RSX-11D
- RT-11
- Alto OS
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
- Atari DOS
- POS
- NLTSS
- UNIX/32V
- Version 7 Unix

1980s

1980
- CTOS^[7]
- OS-9
- 86-DOS
- SOS
- Pilot (Xerox Star operating system)
- Xenix
1981
- PC-DOS
- MS-DOS
- Business Operating System
- UTS
- Acorn MOS
- Aegis SR1 (First Apollo/DOMAIN systems shipped on March 27^[8])
1982
- Commodore DOS
- LDOS (By Logical Systems, Inc. - For the Radio Shack TRS-80 Models I, II & III)
- SunOS (1.0)
- QNX
- Ultrix
1983
- Lisa Office System 7/7
- Coherent
- GNU (project start)
- Novell NetWare (S-Net)
- ProDOS
- SunOS 1.0
1984
- Mac OS (System 1.0)
- MSX-DOS
- Sinclair QDOS
- QNX
- UNICOS
- Venix 2.0
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
- AIX 1.0
- GS-OS
- Genera 7.0
- HP-UX
- SunOS 3.0
- GEOS
- Version 9 Unix
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
- A/UX (Apple Computer)
- RISC iX
- LynxOS
- Mac OS (System 6)
- MVS/ESA
- OS/400
- SpartaDOS X
- SunOS 4.0
- TOPS-10 7.04 (Last stable release, July 1988)
- HeliOS 1.0
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)
- TSX-32
- Version 10 Unix
- Xenix 2.3.4 (Last stable release)

1990s

1990
- AmigaOS 2.0
- BeOS (v1)
- Genera 8.0
- OSF/1
- AIX 3.0
- Windows 3.0
1991
- Linux
- Mac OS (System 7)
- MINIX 1.5
- PenPoint OS
- RISC OS 3^[9]
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
- AIX 4.0, 4.1
- RISC OS 3.5
- NetBSD 1.0 (First multi-platform release, October 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
- Inferno
- Mac OS 8
- SkyOS
- MINIX 2.0
- RISC OS 3.7
- AIX 4.3
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
- AROS (Boot for the first time in Stand Alone version)
- RISC OS 4
- Mac OS 9
- Windows 98 (2nd edition)
- Inferno Second Edition (Last distribution (Release 2.3, ca. July 1999) from Lucent's Inferno Business Unit)^[10]
2000

2000s

Date	Windows	Mac	BSD	Red Hat	Ubuntu	Others
2000
2000-01
2000-02	Windows 2000 (first of the Windows server operating systems to drop the 'NT' marketing)^[11]					Solaris 8
2000-03			FreeBSD 4.0	Red Hat Linux 6.2E		AtheOS (announced on Usenet), BeOS R5
2000-04
2000-05
2000-06						Plan 9 Third Edition^[12]
2000-07
2000-08						Debian 2.2, MorphOS 0.1^[13]
2000-09	Windows Me (last of the Windows 9x line of operating systems to be produced and sold)^[14]					SUSE Linux 7.0
2000-10						z/OS, MorphOS 0.2
2000-11
2000-12						HP-UX 11i (11.11)
2001						Haiku (operating system) (formerly known as Open BeOS, began development), EnGarde Secure Linux
2001-02						MorphOS 0.4^[15]
2001-03		Mac OS X v10.0
2001-05						AIX 5L 5.1
2001-07						eComStation 1.0 (July 10)
2001-08
2001-09		Mac OS X v10.1
2001-10	Windows XP (succeeded Windows Me and Windows 2000, successfully merging the 'professional' NT line of desktop operating systems with the 'home' 9x line of operating systems)^[16]					Novell NetWare 6.0
2001-11
2001-12						OS/2 4.52 (latest IBM version, released for both desktop and server systems)
2002	Windows XP 64-bit Edition^{[citation needed]}
2002-03				Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS
2002-04						Plan 9 Fourth Edition^[17], SUSE Linux 8.0
2002-05						Solaris 9 (SPARC only)
2002-06
2002-07						Debian 3.0, Syllable 0.4.0 (first release of Syllable)^[18]
2002-08		Mac OS X v10.2^[19]
2002-09	Windows XP Service Pack 1
2002-10						AIX 5.2
2002-11						MorphOS 1.0
2002-12						MorphOS 1.1
2003-01			FreeBSD 5.0			Solaris 9 (x86 platform support)
2003-02						MorphOS 1.2
2003-03	Windows XP 64-bit Edition, Version 2003^[20]					MorphOS 1.3
2003-04	Windows Server 2003
2003-05				Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 ES
2003-06
2003-07
2003-08						Novell NetWare 6.5, MorphOS 1.4
2003-09						HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23)
2003-10		Mac OS X v10.3		Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3		SUSE Linux 9.0
2003-11				Fedora Core 1
2003-12
2004-03						ReactOS 0.2.0
2004-04
2004-05				Fedora Core 2		AmigaOS 4 (Pre-Release)^[21]
2004-07			DragonFly BSD 1.0
2004-08	Windows XP Service Pack 2					AIX 5.3
2004-10					Ubuntu 4.10 (First released version)
2004-11				Fedora Core 3
2004-12			NetBSD 2.0
2005-01						Solaris 10
2005-02				Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
2005-03	Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition					Novell Open Enterprise Server
2005-04		Mac OS X v10.4			Ubuntu 5.04
2005-05
2005-06				Fedora Core 4		Debian 3.1
2005-07
2005-08
2005-09
2005-10					Ubuntu 5.10	SUSE Linux 10.0
2005-11			FreeBSD 6.0
2005-12			NetBSD 3.0
2006-01						Solaris 10 1/06
2006-02
2006-03	Windows Server 2003 R2			Fedora Core 5
2006-04
2006-05						SymbOS, MINIX 3.1.2 (May 8)
2006-06					Ubuntu 6.06 (LTS)	Solaris 10 6/06
2006-07
2006-08						ReactOS 0.3.0
2006-09
2006-10				Fedora Core 6	Ubuntu 6.10	Slackware 11.0
2006-11	Windows Vista					AmigaOS 4.0, Solaris 10 11/06
2007						BS2000/OSD v7.0
2007-02						Inferno Fourth Edition (February 2)
2007-03	Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2			Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
2007-04					Ubuntu 7.04	Debian 4.0
2007-05				Fedora 7
2007-07						Slackware 12.0
2007-08						Solaris 10 8/07
2007-09						HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31)
2007-10		Mac OS X v10.5			Ubuntu 7.10
2007-11	Windows Home Server			Fedora 8		AIX 6.1, gOS
2007-12			NetBSD 4.0
2008-01
2008-02	Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008		FreeBSD 7.0
2008-03						Singularity 1.1 (initial public release, March 4)
2008-04	Windows XP Service Pack 3				Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS)
2008-05				Fedora 9		Solaris 10 5/08, OpenSolaris 2008.05, Slackware 12.1
2008-06						MorphOS 2.0, SUSE Linux 11.0
2008-07			DragonFly BSD 2.0
2008-08						STOP 6.5
2008-09						AmigaOS 4.1, z/OS V1R10, MorphOS 2.1
2008-10					Ubuntu 8.10	Solaris 10 10/08, Android
2008-11			OpenBSD 4.4	Fedora 10		Singularity 2.0
2008-12						MorphOS 2.2, OpenSolaris 2008.11, Slackware 12.2
2009-01
2009-02						Debian 5.0
2009-03
2009-04			NetBSD 5.0		Ubuntu 9.04
2009-05	Windows Vista Service Pack 2		OpenBSD 4.5			Solaris 10 5/09
2009-06				Fedora 11		AmigaOS 4.1 (Quick Fix), OpenSolaris 2009.06, Palm webOS
2009-07
2009-08		Mac OS X v10.6				Slackware 13.0, MorphOS 2.3
2009-10	Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2		OpenBSD 4.6		Ubuntu 9.10	Solaris 10 10/09, Android 2.0, MorphOS 2.4
2009-11			FreeBSD 8.0	Fedora 12		openSUSE 11.2
2010-01						AmigaOS 4.1 Update 1
2010-04					Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS)	AmigaOS 4.1 Update 2
2010-05			OpenBSD 4.7	Fedora 13
2010-06						MorphOS 2.5
2010-07
2010-08
2010-09						Solaris 10 9/10
2010-10				Fedora 14	Ubuntu 10.10

References

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

[1] Early Electronic Computers (BBC)

[2] MIT's first Operating System (1954)

[3] EARLY OPERATING SYSTEMS

[4] ttp://www.clock.org/~jss/work/mts/timeline.html

[5] Multics History

[6] FLEX User Group - History

[7] ttp://www.byte.com/art/9412/sec13/art2.htm

[8] Apollo/DOMAIN Computers

[9] ttp://www.wrocc.org.uk/riscos/history.shtml

[10] ttp://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/downloads.html

[11] ttp://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1999/Dec99/W2KrtmPR.mspx

[12] ttp://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/about.html

[13] ttp://obligement.free.fr/articles/morphos01.php

[14] ttp://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2000/sept00/availabilitypr.mspx

[15] ttp://amiga.czex.com/history/2_01e.html

[16] ttp://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/aug01/08-24WinXPRTMPR.mspx

[17] ttp://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/release4.html

[18] ttp://web.syllable.org/documentation/FAQ.html#1_2

[19] ttp://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/aug/23jaguar.html

[20] Windows XP 64-bit Edition for Itanium systems, Version 2003 Press release

[21] "Amiga OS 4.0, The Final Update (Originally released in May of 2004)". Amigaworld.net. 2006-12-24. Retrieved 2009-03-10.

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