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1950S

1956

--- GM-NAA I/O

1959

--- SHARE Operating System

1960S

1960

--- IBSYS

1961

--- CTSS

--- MCP (Burroughs Large Systems)

1962

--- GCOS

1964

--- EXEC 8

--- OS/360 (Announced)

--- TOPS-10

1965

--- Multics (Announced)

--- OS/360 (Shipped)

--- Tape Operating System (TOS)

1966

--- DOS/360 ( IBM )

--- MS/8

1967

--- ACP ( IBM )

--- CP/CMS

--- ITS

--- WAITS

1968

--- TSS-8 (PDP-8)

1969

--- TENEX

--- Unix

1970S

1970

--- DOS-11 (PDP-11)

--- RSTS-11 (PDP-11)

1971

--- OS/8

1972

--- MFT (operating System)

--- MVT

--- RDOS

--- SVS

--- VM/CMS

1973

--- Alto OS

--- RSX-11D

--- RT-11

--- VME

1974

--- MVS (MVS/XA)

1975

--- BS2000

1976

--- CP/M

--- TOPS-20

1978

--- Apple DOS 3.1 (''First Apple OS'')

--- TripOS

--- VMS

--- Lisp Machine (CADR)

1979

--- POS

--- NLTSS

1980S

1980

--- OS-9

--- 86-DOS

--- SOS

--- Pilot (operating System)

--- Xenix

1981

--- MS-DOS

1982

--- Commodore DOS

--- SunOS (1.0)

--- Ultrix

1983

--- Lisa Office System 7/7

--- Coherent

--- Novell NetWare

--- ProDOS

1984

--- Macintosh OS (''System 1.0'')

--- MSX-DOS

--- Sinclair QDOS

--- QNX

--- UniCOS

1985

--- AmigaOS

--- Atari TOS

--- MIPS OS

--- Oberon Operating System

--- Microsoft Windows 1.0 (''First Windows'')

1986

--- AIX

--- 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

--- Macintosh OS ( ''System 6'' )

--- MVS/ESA

--- OS/400

1989

--- NeXTSTEP (1.0)

--- RISC OS

--- SCO Unix (''Release 3'')

1990S

1990

--- Amiga OS 2.0

--- BeOS (v1)

--- OSF/1

--- Windows 3.0

1991

--- Linux (''basis of free Unix-like operating system distributions'') (distribution timeline)

--- Macintosh OS ( ''System 7'' )

1992

--- 386BSD 0.1

--- Amiga OS 3.0

--- Solaris 2.0 (''Successor to SunOS 4.x; based on SVR4 instead of BSD'')

--- Windows 3.1

1993

--- Plan 9 (First Edition)

--- FreeBSD

--- NetBSD

--- Windows NT 3.1 (''First version of NT'')

1995

--- Digital UNIX (''aka'' Tru64 )

--- OpenBSD

--- OS/390

--- Windows 95

1996

--- Mac OS 7.6 (''First officially-named Mac OS'')

--- Windows NT 4.0

1997

--- Inferno

--- Mac OS 8

--- SkyOS

1998

--- Solaris 7 (''First 64-bit Solaris release. Names from this point drop "2.", otherwise would've been Solaris 2.7'')

--- Windows 98

1999

--- AROS (''Boot for the first time in Stand Alone version'')

--- Mac OS 9

--- Windows 98 Second Edition

2000S

2000

--- AtheOS

--- MorphOS

--- Windows 2000

--- Windows Me

2001

--- Amiga OS 4.0 (May 2001)

--- Mac OS X V10.0 and V10.1

--- Windows XP

--- Z/OS

2002

--- Windows XP 64-bit Edition

--- Syllable

--- Mac OS X V10.2

2003

--- Windows Server 2003 (March 28, 2003)

--- Mac OS X V10.3

2005

--- Mac OS X V10.4

2007

--- Windows Vista

EXTERNAL LINKS

http://www.levenez.com/unix/ -- Timeline of UNIX 1969 and its descendants at present

Concise Microsoft O.S. Timeline -- A color-coded concise timeline for various Microsoft operating systems (1981 - present)

Bitsavers , an effort to capture, salvage, and archive historical computer software and manuals from minicomputers and mainframes of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s