Operating systems timeline

This article presents a timeline of events in the history of computer operating systems from 1960 to 2003. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related History of computing hardware.\n

Table of contents

1 1960s 2 2000s 3 External links

1960s

\n* 1961\n** CTSS\n* 1964\n** OS/360 (announced)\n* 1965\n** Multics (announced)\n** OS/360 (shipped)\n** Tape Operating System (TOS)\n* 1966\n** MS/8\n* 1967\n** CP/CMS\n**ITS\n** WAITS\n* 1969\n** ACP (IBM)\n** TENEX\n** Unix\n

1970s

\n* 1970\n** DOS/BATCH 11 (PDP-11)\n* 1971\n** OS/8\n* 1972\n** MFT\n** MVT\n** RDOS\n** SVS\n** VM/CMS\n* 1973\n** Alto OS\n** RSX-11D\n** RT-11\n** VME\n* 1974\n** MVS (MVS/XA)\n* 1976\n** CP/M\n** TOPS-20\n* 1978\n** Apple DOS 3.1 (first Apple OS)\n** TripOS\n** VMS\n* 1979\n** Apple DOS 3.2\n

1980s

\n* 1980\n** Apple DOS 3.3\n** OS-9\n** QDOS\n** SOS\n** XDE (Tajo) (Xerox Development Environment)\n** Xenix\n* 1981\n** MS-DOS\n* 1982\n** SunOS (1.0)\n** Ultrix\n* 1983\n** Lisa OS\n** Coherent\n** ProDOS\n* 1984\n** Macintosh OS (System 1.0)\n** QNX\n** UniCOS\n* 1985\n** AmigaOS\n** Atari TOS\n** MIPS OS\n** Microsoft Windows 1.0\n* 1986\n** AIX\n** GS-OS\n** HP-UX\n* 1987\n** Arthur\n** IRIX (3.0 is first SGI version)\n** Minix\n** OS/2 (1.0)\n** Microsoft Windows 2.0\n* 1988\n** A/UX (Apple Computer)\n** LynxOS\n** MVS/ESA\n** OS/400\n* 1989\n** NeXTSTEP (1.0)\n** RISC OS\n** SCO Unix (release 3)\n

1990s

\n* 1990\n** BeOS (v1)\n** OSF/1\n* 1991\n** Linux\n* 1992\n** Solaris (2.0 is first not called SunOS)\n** Windows 3.1\n* 1993\n** Plan 9\n** FreeBSD\n** NetBSD\n** Slackware Linux\n** Windows NT 3.1 (First version of NT)\n* 1994\n** Red Hat Linux\n* 1995\n** Digital Unix (aka Tru64 )\n** OpenBSD\n** OS/390\n** Windows 95\n* 1996\n** Debian GNU/Linux (Debian 1.1) [1]\n** Windows NT 4.0\n* 1997\n** Mac OS 7.6 (first officially-named Mac OS)\n** SkyOS\n* 1998\n** Windows 98\n* 1999\n** Mac OS 8

2000s

\n* 2000\n** AtheOS\n** Mac OS 9\n** Windows 2000\n** Windows Me (Millenium Edition)\n* 2001\n** Mac OS X\n** Windows XP\n** z/OS\n* 2002\n** Syllable\n* 2003\n** Windows Server 2003

External links

\n* http://www.levenez.com/unix/ -- Timeline of UNIX 1969 and its descendants at present Category:Operating systems