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Timeline of operating systems

Index Timeline of operating systems

This article presents a timeline of events in the history of computer operating systems from 1951 to the current day. [1]

57 relations: ACM SIGOPS, Berkeley Timesharing System, BS2000, Catamount (operating system), Chippewa Operating System, Chrome OS, CNK operating system, Comparison of operating systems, Compatible Time-Sharing System, Cray Operating System, Cray Time Sharing System, Dartmouth Time Sharing System, DC/OSx, DNIX, Domain/OS, DOS/360 and successors, EOS (operating system), Forensic software engineering, General Comprehensive Operating System, Glossary of operating systems terms, GM-NAA I/O, History of IBM mainframe operating systems, History of operating systems, History of Unix, IBM 7090/94 IBSYS, IBM Airline Control Program, IBM AIX, INK (operating system), List of operating systems, List of timelines, MIPS RISC/os, MONECS, Multiuser DOS, Operating system, Outline of computer engineering, Outline of computer programming, PC-MOS/386, Pilot (operating system), PRIMOS, Project Genie, QNX, RC 4000 multiprogramming system, SHARE Operating System, System Commander, THE multiprogramming system, Time Sharing Operating System, Time-sharing, Time-sharing system evolution, Timeline of DOS operating systems, Timeline of open-source software, ..., TSS (operating system), University of Michigan Executive System, Unix, Usage share of desktop operating systems, Usage share of operating systems, VS/9, Xinu. Expand index (7 more) »

ACM SIGOPS

ACM SIGOPS is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, an international community of students, faculty, researchers, and practitioners associated with research and development related to operating systems.

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Berkeley Timesharing System

The Berkeley Timesharing System was a pioneering time-sharing operating system implemented between 1964 and 1967 at the University of California, Berkeley.

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BS2000

BS2000 (renamed BS2000/OSD in 1992) is a mainframe computer operating system developed in the 1970s by Siemens (Data Processing Department EDV) and from early 2000s onward by Fujitsu Technology Solutions.

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Catamount (operating system)

Catamount is an operating system for supercomputers.

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Chippewa Operating System

The Chippewa Operating System often called COS is the discontinued operating system for the CDC 6600 supercomputer, generally considered the first super computer in the world.

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Chrome OS

Chrome OS is an operating system designed by Google that is based on the Linux kernel and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface.

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CNK operating system

Compute Node Kernel (CNK) is the node level operating system for the IBM Blue Gene series of supercomputers.

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Comparison of operating systems

These tables provide a comparison of operating systems, of computer devices, as listing general and technical information for a number of widely used and currently available PC or handheld (including smartphone and tablet computer) operating systems.

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Compatible Time-Sharing System

The Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), was one of the first time-sharing operating systems; it was developed at the MIT Computation Center.

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Cray Operating System

The Cray Operating System (COS) succeeded Chippewa Operating System (shipped with earlier computer systems CDC 6000 series and CDC 7600) and is Cray Research's now discontinued proprietary operating system for its Cray-1 (1976) and Cray X-MP supercomputers, and those platforms' main OS until replaced by UNICOS in the late 1980s.

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Cray Time Sharing System

The Cray Time Sharing System, also known in the Cray user community as CTSS, was developed as an operating system for the Cray-1 or Cray X-MP line of supercomputers.

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Dartmouth Time Sharing System

The Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, or DTSS for short, is an operating system first developed at Dartmouth College between 1963 and 1964.

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DC/OSx

DC/OSx (DataCenter/OSx) is a discontinued Unix operating system for MIPS based systems developed by Pyramid Technology.

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DNIX

DNIX (original spelling: D-Nix) was a Unix-like real-time operating system from the Swedish company Dataindustrier AB (DIAB).

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Domain/OS

Domain/OS is the discontinued operating system used by the Apollo/Domain line of workstations manufactured by Apollo Computer Inc.

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DOS/360 and successors

Disk Operating System/360, also DOS/360, or simply DOS, is a discontinued operating system for IBM mainframes.

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EOS (operating system)

EOS is a discontinued operating system developed by ETA Systems (a spin-off division of Control Data Corporation) for use in their ETA10 line of supercomputers in the 1980s.

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Forensic software engineering

Forensic software engineering refers to the discipline of analyzing (and sometimes reconstructing) the functionality of software applications or services that have become defunct; are no longer accompanied by, or previously lacked, documentation; or for which the original engineers are no longer available.

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General Comprehensive Operating System

General Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS,; originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor) is a family of operating systems oriented toward mainframe computers.

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Glossary of operating systems terms

This page is a glossary of Operating systems terminology.

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GM-NAA I/O

The GM-NAA I/O input/output system of General Motors and North American Aviation was the first operating system for the IBM 704 computer.

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History of IBM mainframe operating systems

The history of operating systems running on IBM mainframes is a notable chapter of history of mainframe operating systems, because of IBM's long-standing position as the world's largest hardware supplier of mainframe computers.

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History of operating systems

Computer operating systems (OSes) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application programs on a computer, and the links needed to control and synchronize computer hardware.

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History of Unix

The history of Unix dates back to the mid-1960s when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AT&T Bell Labs, and General Electric were jointly developing an experimental time sharing operating system called Multics for the GE-645 mainframe.

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IBM 7090/94 IBSYS

IBSYS is the discontinued tape-based operating system that IBM supplied with its IBM 7090 and IBM 7094 computers.

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IBM Airline Control Program

IBM Airline Control Program, or ACP, is a discontinued operating system developed by IBM beginning about 1965.

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IBM AIX

AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms.

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INK (operating system)

INK (for I/O Node Kernel) is the operating system that runs on the input output nodes of the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer.

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List of operating systems

This is a list of operating systems.

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List of timelines

This is a list of timelines currently on Wikipedia.

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MIPS RISC/os

RISC/os is a discontinued UNIX operating system developed by MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. from 1985 to 1992, for their computer workstations and servers, such as the MIPS M/120 server or MIPS Magnum workstation.

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MONECS

MONECS ('''Mon'''ash University Educational Computing System) was a computer operating system with BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal interpreters, plus machine language facility.

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Multiuser DOS

Multiuser DOS is a real-time multi-user multi-tasking operating system for IBM PC-compatible microcomputers.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.

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Outline of computer engineering

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to computer engineering: Computer engineering – discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer hardware and software.

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Outline of computer programming

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to computer programming: Computer programming – process that leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable computer programs.

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PC-MOS/386

PC-MOS/386 was a multi-user, computer multitasking operating system produced by The Software Link (TSL), announced at COMDEX in November 1986 for February 1987 release.

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Pilot (operating system)

Pilot is a single-user, multitasking operating system designed by Xerox PARC in early 1977.

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PRIMOS

PRIMOS was an operating system developed during the 1970s by Prime Computer for its minicomputer systems.

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Project Genie

Project Genie was a computer research project started in 1964 at the University of California, Berkeley.

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QNX

QNX is a commercial Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market.

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RC 4000 multiprogramming system

The RC 4000 Multiprogramming System is a discontinued operating system developed for the RC 4000 minicomputer in 1969.

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SHARE Operating System

The SHARE Operating System (SOS) was created in 1959 as an improvement on the General Motors GM-NAA I/O operating system, the first operating system, by the SHARE user group.

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System Commander

System Commander (SC for short) was a boot manager/loader software application developed by.

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THE multiprogramming system

The THE multiprogramming system or THE OS was a computer operating system designed by a team led by Edsger W. Dijkstra, described in monographs in 1965-66 (Jun 14, 1965) and published in 1968.

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Time Sharing Operating System

Time Sharing Operating System, or TSOS, is a discontinued operating system for RCA mainframe computers of the Spectra 70 series.

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Time-sharing

In computing, time-sharing is the sharing of a computing resource among many users by means of multiprogramming and multi-tasking at the same time.

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Time-sharing system evolution

This article covers the evolution of time-sharing systems, providing links to major early time-sharing operating systems, showing their subsequent evolution.

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Timeline of DOS operating systems

This article presents a timeline of events in the history of x86 DOS operating systems from 1973 to 2016.

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Timeline of open-source software

This article presents a timeline of events related to popular free/open-source software.

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TSS (operating system)

The IBM Time Sharing System TSS/360 is a discontinued early time-sharing operating system designed exclusively for a special model of the System/360 line of mainframes, the Model 67.

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University of Michigan Executive System

The University of Michigan Executive System, or UMES, a batch operating system developed at the University of Michigan in 1958, was widely used at many universities.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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Usage share of desktop operating systems

The usage share of desktop operating systems is the percentage of the operating systems (OS) used in computers (approximately market share) with so-called (retronym) desktop operating system, that also run on e.g. laptops.

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Usage share of operating systems

The usage share of operating systems is an estimate of the percentage of computing devices that run each operating system at any particular time.

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VS/9

VS/9 is a discontinued computer operating system available for the UNIVAC Series 90 mainframes (90/60, 90/70, and 90/80) during the late 1960s through 1980s.

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Xinu

Xinu Is Not Unix (Xinu, a recursive acronym), is an operating system for embedded systems, originally developed by Douglas Comer for educational use at Purdue University in the 1980s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_operating_systems

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