Timeline of operating systems
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 .
1950s
1951
1953
DYSEAC - an early machine capable of distributing computing
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960s
1960
1961
1962
1963
ADMIRAL [ 5]
AN/FSQ-32 , another early time-sharing system begun
CTSS becomes operational (MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System for the IBM 7094 )
JOSS , an interactive time-shared system that did not distinguish between operating system and language
Titan Supervisor , early time-sharing system begun
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970s
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980s
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
Army Secure Operating System (ASOS)[ 40] – TCSEC A1-class secure, real-time OS for Ada applications
EPOC (EPOC16)
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 )
1990s
1990
1991
1992
386BSD 0.1
Amiga Unix 2.01 (Latest stable release )
AmigaOS 3.0
BSD/386 , by BSDi and later known as BSD/OS.
LGX
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 )
RSTS/E 10.1 (Last stable release, September 1992 )
SLS
Solaris 2.0 (Successor to SunOS 4.x; based on SVR4 instead of BSD )
Windows 3.1
1993
1994
AIX 4.0, 4.1
IBM MVS/ESA SP Version 5
NetBSD 1.0 (First multi-platform release, October 1994 )
OS/2 Warp 3.0
Red Hat
RISC OS 3.5
SPIN – extensible OS written in Modula-3
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000s
2010s
2020s
See also
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