Operating System

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating System History [1] :

   1890s: Herman Hollerith uses punch cards to help with tabulation for the census.

    1964: OS/360 is a part of System/360, one of the first computers. It features basic multitasking with up to 256K RAM.

    1969: Unix is released for the PDP-7. It is first in featuring a hierarchical file system, as well as a command-line interpreter.

    1985:  "System 7" released for the Macintosh II. It offers a GUI and Hierarchical File System (HFS) 

    1986: GEOS is released for the Commodore 64. Computers at this time tend to use BASIC interpreters built into ROM, but can support an operating system.

    1991: Linux is released. The first open-source operating system, but on par with MS-DOS and Mac OS at the time.

    1998: Windows '98 released. First MS-DOS support for FAT32 architecture, and marks the decline of MS-DOS.

    2000: Windows Mobile released. Designed to replicate the design of Windows, but using different underlying software.

    iOS (on the iPhone). Offers a stripped down design, but uses the same underlying software as OSX.

    2008: Android is released. Based on Linux, offers greater support for third party programs than other mobile operating systems.

    2009: Windows 7 released. This offers an improved UI from previous versions XP and Vista, and also offers significant speed                               improvements. 

    2011: Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" released. This is the first version of Mac OS X which is only available via software download. 

 

[1] Class Timeline Wiki (Joseph Blackman) on mywpi.edu