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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
.
1961
CTSS
1964
OS/360
1965
Multics
Tape Operating System
(TOS)
1966
MS/8[?]
1969
ACP[?]
(IBM)
TOPS-20
(
TENEX
)
Unix
1970
DOS/BATCH 11
(PDP-11)
1971
OS/8
1972
MFT
MVT
RDOS
SVS
VM/CMS
1973
Alto OS
RSX-11D
RT-11
VME
1974
MVS
(MVS/XA)
1976
CP/M
1978
Apple DOS 3.1
(
first Apple OS
)
TripOS
VMS
1979
Apple DOS 3.2
1980
Apple DOS 3.3
OS-9
QDOS
SOS
XDE (Tajo)
(
Xerox Development Environment
)
Xenix
1981
MS-DOS
1982
SunOS
(1.0)
Ultrix
1983
Lisa OS
Coherent
ProDOS
1984
Macintosh OS
(
System 1.0
)
QNX
UniCOS
1985
AmigaOS
Atari TOS
MIPS OS
Microsoft Windows 1.0
1986
GS-OS
HP-UX
1987
Arthur
IRIX
(
3.0 is first SGI version
)
Minix
OS/2
(1.0)
Microsoft Windows 2.0
1988
A/UX
(Apple Computer)
LynxOS[?]
MVS/ESA
OS/400
1989
AIX
NeXTSTEP
(1.0)
RISC OS
SCO Unix
(
release 3
)
1990
BeOS
(v1)
OSF/1
1991
Linux
1992
Solaris
(
2.0 is first not called SunOS
)
Windows 3.1
1993
Plan 9
FreeBSD
NetBSD
Windows NT 3.1
(
First version of NT
)
1995
Digital Unix
(
aka
Tru64
)
OpenBSD
OS/390
Windows 95
1997
Mac OS 7.6
(
first officially named Mac OS
)
1998
Windows 98
1999
Mac OS 8
2000
Mac OS 9
Windows 2000
Windows ME
2001
Mac OS X
Windows XP
z/OS
External links
http://www.levenez.com/unix/
-- Timeline of UNIX history
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