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 2009. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the History of operating systems.
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1 1950s 2 1960s 3 1970s 4 1980s 5 1990s 6 2000s 7 See also

7.1 Category links

8 References 9 External links

[edit]1950s

1951

LEO I 'Lyons Electronic Office' firm J. Lyons and Co.

[1]

was the commercial development of EDSAC computing platform, supported by British

1954

 
1955

MIT's Tape Director operating system made for UNIVAC 1103

[2]

 
1956

General Motors Operating System made for IBM 701

[3]

 
1957

GM-NAA I/O for IBM 704, based on General Motors Operating System

  
1958

Atlas Supervisor (Manchester University) (Atlas computer project start) BESYS (Bell Labs), for IBM 7090 and IBM 7094

 
1959

University of Michigan Executive System (UMES), for IBM 704, 709, and 7090

SHARE Operating System (SOS), based on GM-NAA I/O

[edit]1960s

1960

 
1961

IBSYS (IBM for its 7090 and 7094)

  
1962

CTSS (MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System for the IBM 7094) MCP (Burroughs Master Control Program)

 

Atlas Supervisor (Manchester University) (Atlas computer commissioned) GCOS (GE's General Comprehensive Operating System, originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor)

1963

  
1964

Titan Supervisor, early time-sharing system begun AN/FSQ-32, another early time-sharing system begun

     
1965

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)

   
1966

Multics (MIT, GE, Bell Labs for the GE-645) (Announced) BOS/360 (IBM's Basic Operating System) TOS/360 (IBM's Tape Operating System)

   
1967

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)

   

CP/CMS (IBM, also known as CP-67) Michigan Terminal System (MTS)

(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 TOPS10)

1968

   
1969

Airline Control Program (ACP) (IBM) TSS-8 (DEC for the PDP-8) THE multiprogramming system (Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven)

   

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 )
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[edit]1970s

1970

 
1971

DOS-11 (PDP-11)

  
1972

RSTS-11 2A-19 (First released version; PDP-11) OS/8

    
1973

RDOS SVS VM/CMS MUSIC/SP

     
1974

-1 (Elbrus-1) - Soviet computer - created using high-level language u VME - implementation language S3 (ALGOL 68). RSX-11D RT-11 Alto OS

-76 (AL-76/ALGOL 68).

 

DOS-11 V09-20C (Last stable release, June 1974) SINTRAN III

 
1975

MONECS

   
1976

CP/M BS2000 V2.0 (First released version) Sixth Edition Unix

Cambridge CAP computer[1] - All operating system procedures written in ALGOL 68C, with some closely associated protected procedures in BCPL.

   
1977

Cray Operating System FLEX

TOPS-20

     
1978

1BSD KERNAL OASIS operating system TRS-DOS Virtual Memory System (VMS) V1.0 (Initial commercial release, October 25)

      
1979

2BSD Apple DOS HDOS 1.0 TripOS UCSD p-System (First released version) Lisp Machine (CADR)

    

Atari DOS POS NLTSS UNIX/32V Version 7 Unix

[edit]1980s

1980

CTOS

[7]

     
1981

OS-9 86-DOS SOS Pilot (Xerox Star operating system) Xenix

      
1982

PC-DOS MS-DOS Business Operating System UTS Acorn MOS Aegis SR1 (First Apollo/DOMAIN systems shipped on March 27 )
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1983

Commodore DOS LDOS (By Logical Systems, Inc. - For the Radio Shack TRS-80 Models I, II & III) Sun UNIX (later SunOS) 0.7 QNX Ultrix

      
1984

Lisa Office System 7/7 Coherent GNU (project start) Novell NetWare (S-Net) ProDOS SunOS 1.0

      
1985

Mac OS (System 1.0) MSX-DOS Sinclair QDOS QNX UNICOS Venix 2.0

         
1986

AmigaOS Atari TOS DG/UX MIPS OS Oberon - written in Oberon-2 SunOS 2.0 Version 8 Unix Windows 1.0 Xenix 2.0

       
1987

AIX 1.0 GS-OS Genera 7.0 HP-UX SunOS 3.0 GEOS Version 9 Unix

       
1988

Arthur IRIX (3.0 is first SGI version) MINIX 1.0 BS2000 V9.0 OS/2 (1.0) PC-MOS/386 Windows 2.0

      

A/UX (Apple Computer) RISC iX LynxOS Mac OS (System 6) MVS/ESA OS/400 SpartaDOS X

   
1989

SunOS 4.0 TOPS-10 7.04 (Last stable release, July 1988) HeliOS 1.0

  

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)

[edit]1990s

1990

      
1991

AmigaOS 2.0 BeOS (v1) Genera 8.0 OSF/1 AIX 3.0 Windows 3.0

     
1992

Linux Mac OS (System 7) MINIX 1.5 PenPoint OS RISC OS 3

     

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)

  
1993

Plan 9 First Edition (First public release was made available to universities) Windows 3.1

         
1994

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

   
1995

AIX 4.0, 4.1 RISC OS 3.5 NetBSD 1.0 (First multi-platform release, October 1994)

      
1996

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

     
1997

Mac OS 7.6 (First officially-named Mac OS) Windows NT 4.0 RISC OS 3.6 AIX 4.2 Palm OS

  

Inferno Mac OS 8 SkyOS

   
1998

MINIX 2.0 RISC OS 3.7 AIX 4.3

     
1999

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

     
2000

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)
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[edit]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

FreeBSD4.0

Red Hat Linux6.2E

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

2002-03

Red Hat Enterprise Linux2.1 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

FreeBSD5.0

Solaris 9 (x86 platform support)

2003-02

MorphOS 1.2

2003-03

Windows XP 64-bit Edition,

MorphOS 1.3

Version 2003[20]

2003-04

Windows Server 2003

2003-05

Red Hat Enterprise Linux2.1 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

NetBSD2.0

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

FreeBSD6.0

2005-12

NetBSD3.0

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

NetBSD4.0

2008-01

2008-02

Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008

FreeBSD7.0

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

OpenBSD4.4

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

NetBSD5.0

Ubuntu 9.04

2009-05

Windows Vista Service Pack 2

OpenBSD4.5

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

OpenBSD4.6

Ubuntu 9.10

Solaris 10 10/09, Android 2.0, MorphOS 2.4

2009-11

FreeBSD8.0

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

OpenBSD4.7

Fedora 13

2010-06

MorphOS 2.5

2010-07

2010-08

2010-09

Solaris 10 9/10

2010-10

Fedora 14

Ubuntu 10.10

2010-11

NetBSD5.1

2010-12

2011-01

2011-02

Windows 7 Service Pack 1

Debian 6.0

2011-03

2011-04

Ubuntu 11.04

2011-05 [edit]

Fedora 15