Operating System History

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    Operating system development

  • Manchester Mark 1 machine derived the primitive conception of an operating system

    Manchester Mark 1 machine derived the primitive conception of an operating system

    Created by Alan Turing
  • Basic Operating Systems were being developed.

    Basic Operating Systems were being developed.

    Like resident monitor functions that could run different programs in succession to speed up processing.
  • The SHARE Operating System was released for IBM 704

    The SHARE Operating System was released for IBM 704

    Created by IBM
  • IBM OS/360 introduced the concept of a single OS spanning an entire product line.

    IBM OS/360 introduced the concept of a single OS spanning an entire product line.

  • UNIX is released

    UNIX is released

    It was created by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, Michael Lesk and Joe Ossanna.

  • UNIX is functional in the PDP-11/20

    It added a text formatting program called roff and a text editor.
  • BSD started being developed in Berkeley

    BSD started being developed in Berkeley

  • BSD project was funded by the american Defense Department

  • First version of Mac OS is released

    First version of Mac OS is released

    Created by Apple Inc.
  • Microsoft Windows is originated operating environment running on top of MS-DOS.

    Microsoft Windows is originated operating environment running on top of MS-DOS.

  • Linux kernel was released

    Linux kernel was released

    Createrd by Linus Torvalds
  • Windows 95 was released

    Windows 95 was released

    only used MS-DOS as a bootstrap
  • Mac OS X 10.0 was released

    Mac OS X 10.0 was released

    Created by Apple Inc.
  • Mac OS X Mountain Lion is released

    Mac OS X Mountain Lion is released