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.
Contents
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
- 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
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
- AN/FSQ-32, another early time-sharing system begun
- Titan Supervisor, early time-sharing system begun
- 1964
- KDF9 Timesharing Director (English Electric) An early, fully hardware secured, fully pre-emptive process switching, multi-programming operating system for KDF9 (originally announced in 1960)
- Berkeley Timesharing System (for Scientific Data Systems' SDS 940)
- Dartmouth Time Sharing System (Dartmouth College's DTSS for GE computers)
- OS/360 (IBM's primary OS for its S/360 series) (announced)
- SCOPE (CDC 3000 series)
- TOPS-10 (DEC, the name TOPS-10 wasn't adopted until 1970)
- EXEC 8 (UNIVAC)
- 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)
- Pick operating system
- 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)
- GEORGE 1 & 2 For ICT 1900 series
- 1967
- CP-40, predecessor to CP-67 on modified IBM System/360 Model 40
- CP-67 (IBM, also known as CP/CMS)
- Michigan Terminal System (MTS)[6] (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[7])
- GEORGE 3 For ICL 1900 series
1970s
- 1970
- DOS-11 (PDP-11)
- 1971
- 1972
- Data General RDOS
- Operating System/Virtual Storage 1 (OS/VS1)
- Operating System/Virtual Storage 2 R1 (OS/VS2 SVS)
- Virtual Machine Facility/370 (VM/370), sometimes known as VM/CMS
- Virtual Machine/Basic Extended Product (BSEPP)
- Virtual Machine/Extended Product (SEPP)
- MUSIC/SP
- 1973
- 1974
- DOS-11 V09-20C (Last stable release, June 1974)
- Sintran III
- MONECS
- Multi-Programming Executive (MPE) – Hewlett-Packard
- Hydra[8] – capability-based, multiprocessing OS kernel
- Operating System/Virtual Storage 2 R2 (MVS)
- 1975
- CP/M
- BS2000 V2.0 (First released version)
- Version 6 Unix
- 1976
- Cambridge CAP computer[9] – All operating system procedures written in ALGOL 68C, with some closely associated protected procedures in BCPL.
- Cray Operating System
- FLEX[10]
- TOPS-20
- Tandem Nonstop OS v1
- 1977
- 1BSD
- KERNAL
- OASIS operating system
- TRSDOS
- Virtual Memory System (VMS) V1.0 (Initial commercial release, October 25)
- 1978
- 2BSD
- Apple DOS
- HDOS
- TRIPOS
- UCSD p-System (First released version)
- Lisp machine (CADR)
- KVM/370[11] – security retro-fit of IBM VM/370
- KSOS[12] – secure OS design from Ford Aerospace
- MVS/System Extensions (MVS/SE)
- 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
- Stratus VOS[16]
- 1983
- Lisa Office System 7/7
- Coherent
- GNU (project start)
- Novell NetWare (S-Net)
- ProDOS
- SunOS 1.0
- STOP[17] – TCSEC A1-class, secure OS for SCOMP hardware
- LOCUS[18] – UNIX compatible, high reliability, distributed OS
- DNIX
- MVS/Extended Architecture (MVS/XA)
- 1984
- Mac OS (System 1.0)
- MSX-DOS
- Sinclair QDOS
- QNX
- UNICOS
- Venix 2.0
- Virtual Machine/Extended Architecture Migration Assistance (VM/XA MA)
- 1985
- Windows 1.0
- AmigaOS
- Atari TOS
- DG/UX
- MIPS RISC/os
- Oberon – written in Oberon
- SunOS 2.0
- Version 8 Unix
- Windows 1.01
- Xenix 2.0
- Virtual Machine/Extended Architecture System Facility (VM/XA SF)
- 1986
- 1987
- Topaz[21] – semi-distributed OS for DEC Firefly workstation written in Modula-2+ and garbage collected
- 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
- KeyKOS – capability-based microkernel with automated persistence
- LynxOS
- CP/M rebranded as DR-DOS
- Mac OS (System 6)
- MVS/Enterprise Systems Architecture (MVS/ESA)
- OS/2 (1.1)
- OS/400
- SpartaDOS X
- SunOS 4.0
- TOPS-10 7.04 (Last stable release, July 1988)
- HeliOS 1.0
- VAX VMM[22] – TCSEC A1-class VMM for VAX computers (limited use before cancellation)
- Flex machine – tagged, capability machine with OS and other software written in ALGOL 68RS
- Virtual Machine/Extended Architecture System Product (VM/XA SP)
- 1989
- EPOC
- NeXTSTEP (1.0)
- OS/2 (1.2)
- 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)
- ASOS[23] – TCSEC A1-class secure, real-time OS for Ada applications
1990s
- 1990
- AmigaOS 2.0
- BeOS (v1)
- Genera 8.0
- OS/2 1.3
- OSF/1
- AIX 3.0
- Windows 3.0
- LOCK[24] – TCSEC A1-class secure system with kernel & hardware support for Type enforcement
- Virtual Machine/Enterprise Systems Architecture (VM/XA ESA)
- 1991
- 1992
- 386BSD 0.1
- AmigaOS 3.0
- Amiga Unix 2.01 (Latest stable release)
- RSTS/E 10.1 (Last stable release, September 1992)
- SLS
- 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
- LGX
- 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
- OS/2 2.1
- 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
- OS/2 4.0
- Palm OS
- Debian 1.1
- JN[27] – microkernel OS for embedded, Java apps
- 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
2000s
2010s
| Year-Month | Windows | Mac | BSD | Linux | Others |
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| 2010–01 | Android 2.1 | AmigaOS 4.1 Upd. 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 Upd. 2 | ||
| 2010–05 | OpenBSD 4.7 | Linux 2.6.34 Fedora 13 Android 2.2 |
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| 2010–06 | MorphOS 2.5 OpenVMS 8.4 iOS 4.0 |
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| 2010–07 | openSUSE 11.3 | ||||
| 2010–08 | Linux 2.6.35 | ||||
| 2010–09 | Solaris 10 9/10 iOS 4.1 AIX 7.1 |
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| 2010–10 | DragonFly BSD 2.8 | Linux 2.6.36 Fedora 14 Ubuntu 10.10 |
MorphOS 2.6 ReactOS 0.3.12 |
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| 2010–11 | NetBSD 5.1 OpenBSD 4.8 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | iOS 4.2 | ||
| 2010–12 | Android 2.3 | MorphOS 2.7 | |||
| 2011–01 | Linux 2.6.37 | ||||
| 2011–02 | Windows 7 Service Pack 1 | Debian 6.0 Android 3.0 |
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| 2011–03 | Linux 2.6.38 openSUSE 11.4 |
iOS 4.3 ReactOS 0.3.13 |
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| 2011–04 | DragonFly BSD 2.10 | Ubuntu 11.04 Slackware 13.37 |
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| 2011–05 | OpenBSD 4.9 | Linux 2.6.39 Fedora 15 Android 3.1 |
AmigaOS 4.1 Upd. 1 (for Classic) |
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| 2011–06 | Google Chrome OS (first shipped) | 9front iOS 5.0 |
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| 2011–07 | Mac OS X v10.7 "Lion" | Linux 3.0 Android 3.2 HP webOS 3 |
AmigaOS 4.1 Upd. 3 |
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| 2011–08 | |||||
| 2011–09 | |||||
| 2011–10 | Linux 3.1 Ubuntu 11.10 Android 4.0 |
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| 2011–11 | OpenBSD 5.0 | Fedora 16 openSUSE 12.1 |
BS2000/OSD 9.0 Solaris 11 11/11 |
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| 2011–12 | AmigaOS 4.1 Upd. 4 | ||||
| 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 | Linux 3.3 Android 4.0.4 |
iOS 5.1 | |||
| 2012–04 | Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) | ||||
| 2012–05 | OpenBSD 5.1 | Linux 3.4 Fedora 17 |
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| 2012–06 | MorphOS 3.0 iOS 5.1.1 |
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| 2012–07 | Mac OS X v10.8 "Mountain Lion" | Linux 3.5 Android 4.1 openSUSE 12.2 |
MorphOS 3.1 AmigaOS 4.1 Upd. 5 |
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| 2012–08 | |||||
| 2012–09 | Windows Server 2012 | Linux 3.6 Slackware 14.0 |
iOS 6.0 | ||
| 2012–10 | Windows 8 | NetBSD 6.0 OpenBSD 5.2 |
Ubuntu 12.10 | Solaris 11.1 | |
| 2012–11 | DragonFly BSD 3.2 | Android 4.2 | Haiku R1 Alpha 4 iOS 6.0.1 |
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| 2012–12 | FreeBSD 9.1 | iOS 6.0.2 | |||
| 2013-01 | Fedora 18 | BlackBerry 10 iOS 6.1 Solaris 10 1/13 |
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| 2013-02 | |||||
| 2013-03 | openSUSE 12.3 | ||||
| 2013-04 | DragonFly BSD 3.4 | Linux 3.9 Ubuntu 13.04 |
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| 2013-05 | NetBSD 6.1 OpenBSD 5.3 |
Debian 7.0 | ReactOS 0.3.15 MorphOS 3.2 |
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| 2013-06 | Linux 3.10 | ||||
| 2013-07 | Fedora 19 Android 4.3 |
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| 2013-08 | |||||
| 2013-09 | FreeBSD 9.2 | Linux 3.11 | iOS 7 MorphOS 3.3 z/OS Version 2.1 |
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| 2013-10 | Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2012 R2 |
OS X Mavericks (version 10.9) | Ubuntu 13.10 | ||
| 2013-11 | DragonFly BSD 3.6 OpenBSD 5.4 |
Fedora 19 Slackware 14.1 openSUSE 13.1 Android 4.4 Linux 3.12 |
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| 2013-12 | Fedora 20 | MorphOS 3.4 | |||
| 2014-01 | FreeBSD 10.0 | Linux 3.13 | |||
| 2014-02 | ReactOS 0.3.16 MorphOS 3.5 |
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| 2014-03 | Linux 3.14 | ||||
| 2014-04 | Ubuntu 14.04 (LTS) | Solaris 11.2 | |||
| 2014-05 | OpenBSD 5.5 | ||||
| 2014-06 | DragonFly BSD 3.8 | Linux 3.15 | MorphOS 3.6 | ||
| 2014-07 | |||||
| 2014-08 | Linux 3.16 | MorphOS 3.7 | |||
| 2014-09 | Minix 3.3 iOS 8 |
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| 2014-10 | OS X Yosemite (version 10.10) | Ubuntu 14.10 Linux 3.17 |
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| 2014-11 | OpenBSD 5.6 FreeBSD 10.1 DragonFly BSD 4.0 |
openSUSE 13.2 Android 5.0 |
ReactOS 0.3.17 | ||
| 2014-12 | Linux 3.18 | ||||
| 2015-01 | |||||
| 2015-02 | Linux 3.19 | ||||
| 2015-03 | |||||
| 2015-04 | Linux 4.0 Debian 8.0 Ubuntu 15.04 |
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| 2015-05 | |||||
| 2015-06 | |||||
| 2015-07 | Windows 10 | ||||
| 2015-08 | FreeBSD 10.2 | ||||
| 2015-09 | OS X El Capitan (version 10.11) | z/OS Version 2.2 [46] | |||
| 2015-10 | Android 6.0 Ubuntu 15.10 |
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| 2015-11 | |||||
| 2015-12 | |||||
| 2016-01 |
See also
- Comparison of operating systems
- List of operating systems
- Comparison of real-time operating systems
- Timeline of DOS operating systems
- Timeline of Linux distributions (Diagram 1992–2010)
Category links
References
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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 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s
- A brief history of operating systems
- Microsoft operating system time-line
