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.
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[edit] 1950s
- 1954
- MIT's operating system made for UNIVAC 1103[1]
- 1955
- 1956
- GM-NAA I/O for IBM 704, based on General Motors Operating System
- 1957
- 1958
- 1959
- SHARE Operating System, based on GM-NAA I/O
[edit] 1960s
- 1960
- 1961
- 1962
- 1964
- EXEC 8 (UNIVAC)
- OS/360 (IBM) (Announced)
- TOPS-10 (DEC)
- Berkeley Timesharing System
- Dartmouth Time Sharing System (Dartmouth College)
- 1965
- 1966
- DOS/360 (IBM)
- MS/8 (Richard F. Lary)
- 1967
- 1968
- Airline Control Program (IBM)
- TSS-8 (DEC) (PDP-8)
- THE multiprogramming system (THE)
- 1969
- TENEX (Bolt, Beranek and Newman)
- Unix (AT&T)
- RC 4000 Multiprogramming System (RC)
- Multics (MIT, GE, Bell Labs) (opened for paying customers in October[4])
[edit] 1970s
- 1970
- DOS-11 (PDP-11)
- 1971
- 1972
- 1973
- 1974
- MVS (MVS/XA)
- DOS-11 V09-20C (Last stable release, June 1974)
- SINTRAN III
- 1975
- BS2000 V2.0 (First released version)
- Sixth Edition Unix
- 1976
- 1977
- 1BSD
- FLEX
- 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
- 1982
- Commodore DOS
- LDOS (By Logical Systems, Inc. - For the Radio Shack TRS-80 Models I, II & III)
- SunOS (1.0)
- QNX
- Ultrix
- 1983
- 1984
- Macintosh OS (System 1.0)
- MSX-DOS
- Sinclair QDOS
- QNX
- UNICOS
- Venix 2.0
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988
- A/UX (Apple Computer)
- RISC iX
- LynxOS
- Macintosh OS (System 6)
- MVS/ESA
- OS/400
- SpartaDOS X
- SunOS 4.0
- TOPS-10 7.04 (Last stable release, July 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)
- 1993
- FreeBSD
- NetBSD
- Newton OS
- Windows NT 3.1 (First Windows de facto operating system)
- Open Genera 1.0
- 1994
- AIX 4.0
- RiscOS 3.5
- SUSE Linux 1.0
- 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
- RiscOS 3.6
- 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)
- 1999
- AROS (Boot for the first time in Stand Alone version)
- Mac OS 9
- Windows 98 Second Edition
- Inferno Second Edition (Last distribution (Release 2.3, ca. July 1999) from Lucent's Inferno Business Unit)[7]
- 2000
[edit] 2000s
[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 1992–2000)
[edit] Category links
[edit] References
[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