History of the OS

  • single-stream batch processing systems

    The General Motors Research Laboratories implemented the first operating systems for their IBM 701.
  • SHARE Operating System (SOS)

    An improvement of the GM-NAA I/O. Provided new methods to manage buffers and input/output devices, allowed execution of programs written in assembly language.
  • Batch processing systems

    Able to runseveral jobs at once.
  • GCOS

    Originally called GECOS (the General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor). Still used today in its most recent version (GCOS 8)by Honeywell and Groupe Bull.
  • BATCH-11/DOS-11 (DOS-11)

    The first operating system to run on the Digital PDP-11 minicomputer.
  • SINTRAN III

    Created by Norsk Data Brand NORD PL.Programs "LIST-FILES" "PED H-W:" "HELLO-WORLD:SYMB"
  • Apple SOS

    The primary operating system developed for the Apple III computer. The system was developed by Apple Computer, Inc.
  • Microsoft Windows 1.0

    developed by Microsoft Corporation.
  • Linux kernel

    By the Linux family of Unix-like operating systems.[ released under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) (plus some firmware images with various non-free licenses)
  • Windows 95

    It was released on August 24, 1995 by Microsoft.
  • Mac OS 9

    The final major release of Apple's Classic Mac OS operating system. Free online.