This article gives a chronology of the emergence of operating systems from 1955 to 2015.
Content
1950s
- 1955 year
- General Motors Operating System , GM OS for IBM 701 [1]
- 1957 year
- BESYS (Bell System)
1960s
- 1960 year
- IBSYS ( IBM 7090 and IBM 7094 )
- 1961 year
- CTSS (Compatible TimeShare System)
- Burroughs MCP (Burroughs Master Control Program)
- 1962 year
- GCOS (General Comprehensive Operating System)
- 1963
- AN / FSQ-32
- 1964
- Dartmouth time sharing system
- EXEC 8
- OS / 360 (announced)
- TOPS-10
- SCOPE (CDC 3000)
- 1965 year
- Multics (announced)
- BOS / 360 (Basic Operating System)
- TSOS / VMOS
- OS / 360 (introduced)
- Tape Operating System (TOS)
- 1966 year
- DOS / 360 ( IBM )
- Ms / 8
- 1967 year
- ACP ( IBM )
- CP / CMS
- ITS
- WAITS
- 1968 year
- Dispatcher 68
- TSS-8
- 1969 year
- Tenex
- Unix
1970s
- 1970 year
- DOS / BATCH 11 (PDP-11)
- RT-11 (PDP-11)
- 1971 year
- OS / 8
- 1972 year
- RDOS
- VM
- 1973 year
- Alto os
- RSX-11 D
- VME
- 1974 year
- MVS
- 1976 year
- CP / M
- TOPS-20
- 1978 year
- Apple DOS 3.1 ( formerly Apple OS )
- Tripos
- Vms
- Lisp Machine (CADR)
- UCSD P-System
- 1979 year
- Apple DOS 3.2
- Pos
1980s
- 1980 year
- Apple DOS 3.3
- OS-9
- QDOS
- SOS
- XDE (Tajo) ( Xerox Development Environment )
- Xenix
- 1981 year
- Ms dos
- 1982 year
- SunOS (1.0)
- Ultrix
- 1983 year
- Lisa os
- Coherent
- Prodos
- 1984 year
- Macintosh OS ( System 1.0 )
- QNX
- Unicos
- Venix 2.0
- TR-DOS
- 1985 year
- AmigaOS
- Atari tos
- MIPS OS
- Microsoft Windows 1.0
- 1986 year
- Plan 9
- Aix
- GS / OS
- HP-UX
- 1987 year
- Arthur
- IRIX ( 3.0 is the first SGI version )
- Minix
- OS / 2 1.0 (full-screen text mode, multitasking)
- Microsoft Windows 2.0
- 1988 year
- DR-DOS (Digital Research)
- A / UX (Apple Computer)
- LynxOS
- MVS / ESA
- OS / 400
- NT OS / 2 (development started; even at the development stage, the OS turned into Windows NT )
- 1989 year
- NeXTSTEP (1.0)
- RISC OS
- SCO UNIX ( release 3 )
- OS / 2 1.1 (PMShell window shell)
1990s
- 1990 year
- AmigaOS 2.0
- BeOS (v1)
- OSF / 1
- GNU / Hurd
- Windows 3.0
- 1991 year
- Linux ( kernel ) and GNU / Linux
- OS / 2 v2.10 (with graphical desktop)
- 1992 year
- AmigaOS 2.1
- AmigaOS 3.0
- Solaris ( aka SunOS 2.0 )
- Windows 3.1
- 1993 year
- Freebsd
- Slackware 1.0
- Netbsd
- Windows NT 3.1 ( first officially named NT )
- 1994 year
- AmigaOS 3.1
- OS / 2 Warp 3.x (network protocols, Internet browser )
- 1995 year
- Debian 0.93R6
- Digital UNIX ( aka Tru64 )
- Openbsd
- OS / 390
- Windows 95
- 1996 year
- Debian 1.1 (Buzz)
- Debian 1.2 (Rex)
- Windows NT 4.0
- 1997 year
- Debian 1.3 (Bo)
- EPOC
- Inferno
- Mac OS 7.6 ( first officially named Mac OS )
- Skyos
- 1998 year
- Debian 2.0 (Hamm)
- Reactos
- Windows 98
- 1999 year
- AmigaOS 3.5
- AROS
- Debian 2.1 (Slink)
- Mac OS 8
2000s
- year 2000
- AmigaOS 3.9
- AtheOS
- Debian 2.2 (Potato)
- Mac OS 9
- Mac OS X Public Beta
- MenuetOS 0.01 - 0.21
- MorphOS 0.4 ("free distro" version for the classic Amiga with PowerPC processor)
- QNX Neutrino 6.0
- Windows 2000
- Windows ME (Millennium Edition)
- year 2001
- AmigaOS 4.0 (May 2001, announced publicly)
- eComStation (OS / 2 4.52)
- Mac OS X 10.0
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Windows XP
- z / OS
- 2002 year
- Gentoo Linux 1.0
- AROS (added Zune GUI)
- Debian 3.0 (Woody)
- Mac OS X 10.2
- MorphOS 1.0 (two months later - 1.1)
- Syllable
- 2003 year
- Mac OS X 10.3
- MorphOS 1.4 (significant changes compared to versions 1.2 and 1.3)
- Windows Server 2003
- 2004 year
- AmigaOS 4.0 (build for AmigaONE developers)
- Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
- 2005 year
- Debian 3.1 (Sarge)
- KolibriOS 0.5.0 (fork MenuetOS )
- Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
- Mac OS X 10.4 (Server edition)
- MorphOS 1.4.5 (a number of changes in the kernel)
- OpenSolaris (project)
- Solaris 10
- Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)
- Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)
- Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- Windows Server 2003 64bit
- 2006 year
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake)
- FreeDOS 1.0
- Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)
- 2007 year
- Debian 4.0 (Etch)
- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
- Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)
- Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
- Windows Vista
- 2008 year
- MSVS 3.016
- AmigaOS 4.1 (September 2008)
- FreeBSD 7.0
- MorphOS 2.0 (06/30/2008); 09/05/2008 - version 2.1; 12.20.2008 - version 2.2.
- OpenSolaris 2008.05 (05/13/2008); 2008.11 (11/25/2008)
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)
- Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
- Windows Server 2008
- year 2009
- Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- FreeBSD 8.0
- MorphOS 2.3 (08/06/2009); 12.10.2009 - Version 2.4 with MacMiniPPC support
- OpenSolaris 2009.06
- Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalop)
- Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
- Windows 7
- Windows Server 2008 R2
2010s
- 2010 year
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
- Fedora 13 (Goddard)
- openSUSE 11.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5.5, RHEL 6
- Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
- FreeBSD 9
- Ubuntu 10.10 (Maveric Merkat)
- Astra linux
- 2011
- Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)
- Mint 11 (Katya)
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
- Ubuntu Install Box 11.10
- openSUSE 11.4
- Linux Portable Security (LPS) 1.2.4
- Commodore OS Vision 1.0
- year 2012
- openSUSE 12.1
- Dreamlinux 5
- Gentoo Linux 12.0
- Backbox Linux 2.01
- Windows 8
- Fuduntu 2012.1
- Asturix 4
- Astaro Security Gateway 8.3
- Webconverger 11.0
- FreeBSD 9.0
- PC-BSD 9.0
- DEFT Linux 7
- ArtistX 1.2
- Frugalware Linux 1.6
- Toorox 01.2012
- Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
- Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)
- MorphOS 3.0
- Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)
- year 2013
- Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)
- FreeBSD 9.1
- FreeBSD 8.4
- Mint 15 (Olivia)
- Debian 7.0 (Wheezy)
- Mac OS X 10.9 Maverics
- Windows 8.1
- Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)
- year 2014
- Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)
- FreeBSD 10.0
- 2015 year
- Windows 10
- Debian 8.0
See also
- List of operating systems
- Linux distribution list
Notes
- ↑ EARLY OPERATING SYSTEMS Archived on April 10, 2015.