Timeline of Operating Systems - 1960s

1960s

  • 1960
    • IBSYS (IBM for its 7090 and 7094)
    • KDF9 Timesharing Director (English Electric) An early, fully hardware secured, fully pre-emptive process switching, multi-programming operating system for KDF9 (Announced)
  • 1961
    • CTSS (MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System for the IBM 7094)
    • MCP (Burroughs Master Control Program)
  • 1962
    • Atlas Supervisor (Manchester University) (Atlas computer commissioned)
    • GCOS (GE's General Comprehensive Operating System, originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor)
  • 1963
    • Titan Supervisor, early time-sharing system begun
    • AN/FSQ-32, another early time-sharing system begun
  • 1964
    • EXEC 8 (UNIVAC)
    • OS/360 (IBM's primary OS for its S/360 series) (Announced)
    • TOPS-10 (DEC, the name TOPS-10 wasn't adopted until 1970)
    • Berkeley Timesharing System (for Scientific Data Systems' SDS 940)
    • Dartmouth Time Sharing System (Dartmouth College's DTSS for GE computers)
  • 1965
    • THE multiprogramming system (Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven)
    • Multics (MIT, GE, Bell Labs for the GE-645) (Announced)
    • BOS/360 (IBM's Basic Operating System)
    • TOS/360 (IBM's Tape Operating System)
    • TSOS (later VMOS) (RCA)
  • 1966
    • OS/360 (IBM's primary OS for its S/360 series) PCP and MFT (Shipped)
    • DOS/360 (IBM's Disk Operating System)
    • MS/8 (Richard F. Lary's DEC PDP-8 system)
  • 1967
    • CP/CMS (IBM, also known as CP-67)
    • Michigan Terminal System (MTS) (time-sharing system for the IBM S/360-67 and successors)
    • ITS (MIT's Incompatible Timesharing System for the DEC PDP-6 and PDP-10)
    • ORVYL (Stanford University's time-sharing system for the IBM S/360)
    • TSS/360 (IBM's Time-sharing System for the S/360-67, never officially released, canceled in 1969 and again in 1971)
    • OS/360 MVT
    • WAITS (SAIL, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, time-sharing system for DEC PDP-6 and PDP-10, later TOPS-10)
  • 1968
    • Airline Control Program (ACP) (IBM)
    • THE multiprogramming system (Eindhoven University of Technology)
    • TSS-8 (DEC for the PDP-8)
  • 1969
    • TENEX (Bolt, Beranek and Newman for DEC systems, later TOPS-20)
    • Unics (later Unix) (AT&T, initially on DEC computers)
    • RC 4000 Multiprogramming System (RC)
    • Multics (MIT, GE, Bell Labs for the GE-645 and later the Honeywell 6180) (opened for paying customers in October)

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