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The History of Operating Systems

By veshvw

  • GM-NAA I/O

    Developed by Robert Patrick. He worked for General Motors. It was used in their IBM 704 mainframe. Designed to switch to a new job upon finishing its current job. Only about 40 were used.

  • MCP (Master Control Program)

    Made by Burroughs Corporations. Used in their B5000 mainframe. Still in use today.
  • DOS/360

    DOS/360

    Developed by IBM after many failed attempts. It put IBM ahead of the game in hardware and the Operating System industries.

  • Unix

    Made by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas Mcllroy and Joe Ossanna. They worked for AT&T Bell. Written in C, which mae it easier modified, better accepted and improved portability

  • Cp/M

    By IBM. This OS had a great variety

  • BSD

    Another Unix Variant. Produced by Bell labs

  • MS-DOS

    Developed by Microsoft. The first home user operating system.
  • Sun OS

    Sun OS

    Created by SunMicrosystems. It was based on BSD. unix variant.
  • Mac OS

    Mac OS

    Created by Apple Computers for their new Macintosh PC. First OS to have a GUI built in.

  • OS/2

    Created by IBM and Microsoft. Didnt gain much popularity.
  • Linux

    Linux

    Created by Linus Torvalds. Free unix variant. Is still used widely today.

  • windows NT

    Created by Microsoft. Basis for modern Operating Systems.

  • Solaris

    Created by Sun Microsystems. Unix Variant. Based on SunOS
  • Windows '95

    Windows '95

    Created by microsoft. First windows to have GUI. Marketed with flying colors. introduced start button
  • JavaOS

    JavaOS

    Made by Sun Microsystems. Developed to be used on any device.

  • Windows '98

    Created by Microsoft. Update/upgrade from windows 95

  • Mac 9

    Update to previous Mac OS. Considered a Classic OS

  • Mac X Server

    Created by Apple. Designed for Macintosh computers

  • windows 2000

    New operating system developed by microsoft. Aimed at busness users

  • windows ME

    One of windows failed attempts at launching an operating system

  • Mac X 10.0

    Update to the GUI of previous apple os

  • Windows XP

    Update to Windows 98. Still in use today by some companies

  • Mac Puma

    Added support of video playback

  • Mac Panther

    Operating System update.

  • Windows Server 2003

    Server update from windows NT

  • Mac Tiger

    Added Features to the previous OS. Added Quicktime.

  • PlayStation

    Playstations Started running on a highly modified version of the popular Linux Operating System

  • Xbox

    Xbox's operating system is a modified version of the later os windows 2000

  • windows vista

    Newer OS introduced by Microsoft. Arguably one of the worst OS ever created by microsoft.

  • windows server 2008

    Server Update

  • Mac Snow Leapord

    Fixed bugs with apple, mainly an update
  • Windows 7

    Windows 7

    Made by Microsoft. Upgrade and replacement for windows vista

  • Mac Lion

    Allowed use of larger programs as well as an auto save feature on some other programs

  • Android Jelly Bean

    Update to Android Phone OS

  • Mac Mountain Lion

    Increased support for new functions added to Mac
  • Windows 8

    Windows 8

    Made by Microsoft. Replaced windows 7

  • Mac Mavericks

    Update and improvement to older mac versions

  • Kitkat 4.4

    Android releases new phone OS. Many updates

  • Windows CE

    Windows Phones Run on this.

  • Mac Yosemite

    This is still in beta testing, and the full version will be realsed at a later date