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==1960s== * 1960 ** [[IBM 7090/94 IBSYS|IBSYS]] ([[IBM]] for its [[IBM 7090|7090]] and [[IBM 7094|7094]]) * 1961 ** [[Compatible Time-Sharing System|CTSS]] demonstration ([[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT's]] Compatible Time-Sharing System for the [[IBM 7094]]) ** [[Burroughs MCP|MCP]] ([[Burroughs Corporation|Burroughs]] Master Control Program) for [[B5000]] <!-- Does anybody have date for B6500 MCP--> * 1962 ** [[Atlas Supervisor]] ([[University of Manchester|Manchester University]]) (''Atlas computer commissioned'') ** [[BBN Time-Sharing System]] ** [[General Comprehensive Operating System|GCOS]] ([[General Electric|GE's]] General Comprehensive Operating System, originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor) * 1963 ** [[Honeywell 800|ADMIRAL]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/honeywell/h1800/HONEYWELL_1800-II_A_Large-Scale_Scientific_Processor_1963.pdf |title=Honeywell 1800-II: A Large-Scale Scientific Processor |publisher=Honeywell |access-date=2024-03-27}}</ref> ** [[AN/FSQ-32]], another early time-sharing system begun ** [[Compatible Time-Sharing System|CTSS]] becomes operational ([[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT's]] Compatible Time-Sharing System for the [[IBM 7094]]) ** [[JOSS]], an interactive time-shared system that did not distinguish between operating system and language ** [[Titan (1963 computer)|Titan Supervisor]], early time-sharing system begun * 1964 ** [[Berkeley Timesharing System]] (for [[Scientific Data Systems]]' [[SDS 940]]) ** [[Chippewa Operating System]] (for [[CDC 6600]] supercomputer) ** [[Dartmouth Time-Sharing System]] ([[Dartmouth College]]'s DTSS for GE computers) ** [[EXEC 8]] ([[UNIVAC]]) ** [[English Electric KDF9|KDF9 Timesharing Director]] ([[English Electric]]) โ an early, fully hardware secured, fully pre-emptive process switching, multi-programming operating system for KDF9 (originally announced in 1960) ** [[OS/360 and successors|OS/360]] (IBM's primary OS for its S/360 series) (''announced'') ** PDP-6 Monitor ([[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]) descendant renamed [[TOPS-10]] in 1970 ** [[CDC SCOPE|SCOPE]] (CDC 3000 series) * 1965 ** [[BOS/360]] (IBM's Basic Operating System) ** [[DECsys]] ** [[IBM TOS/360|TOS/360]] (IBM's Tape Operating System) ** [[Livermore Time Sharing System]] (LTSS) ** [[Multics]] (MIT, GE, [[Bell Labs]] for the [[GE 645|GE-645]]) (''announced'') ** [[Pick operating system]] ** [[CDC 6600|SIPROS 66]] (Simultaneous Processing Operating System)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/cyber/cyber_70/sipros/60101800A_SIPROS66ref_1965.pdf |title=CONTROL DATAยฎ 6600 Computer System – Operating System/Reference Manual – SIPROS 66 |publisher=Control Data Corp. |access-date=2024-03-28}}</ref> ** [[THE multiprogramming system]] ([[Eindhoven University of Technology|Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven]]) development ** [[Time Sharing Operating System|TSOS]] (later VMOS) ([[RCA]]) * 1966 ** [[DOS/360]] (IBM's Disk Operating System) ** [[GEORGE (operating system)#GEORGE 1 & 2|GEORGE 1 & 2]] for [[International Computers and Tabulators|ICT]] [[ICT 1900 series|1900 series]] ** [[Honeywell 200|Mod 1]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/honeywell/series200/charlie_gibbs/012_Series_200_Summary_Description.pdf |title=Honeywell Series 200 - Summary Description |publisher=Honeywell |access-date=2024-03-27}}</ref> ** [[Honeywell 200|Mod 2]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bitsavers.org/pdf/honeywell/series200/charlie_gibbs/393_Introduction_to_Operating_System_-_Mod_2.pdf |title=Introduction to Series 200/0perating System - Mod 2 |publisher=Honeywell |access-date=2024-03-27}}</ref> ** [[Honeywell 200|Mod 8]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/honeywell.osorientationmgmt.1966.102646090.pdf |title=Operating System Orientation for Management - Series 200 Operating System In Review |publisher=Honeywell |access-date=2024-03-27}}</ref> ** [[MS/8]] ([[Richard F. Lary]]'s DEC PDP-8 system) ** [[CDC 3000 series#Software|MSOS]] (Mass Storage Operating System)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/3x00/24bit/msos/60174100A_3100_3200_3300_3500_Mass_Storage_Sort_MSOS_Sep1967.pdf |title=3100 3200 3300 3500 Computer Systems – Mass Storage Sort/MSOS (Reference Manual) |publisher=Control Data Corp. |access-date=2024-03-28}}</ref> ** [[OS/360 and successors|OS/360]] (IBM's primary OS for its S/360 series) PCP and MFT (''shipped'') ** [[IBM Remote Access Computing|RAX]] ** Remote Users of Shared Hardware (RUSH), a time-sharing system developed by [[Allen-Babcock]] for the [[IBM System/360 Model 50|IBM 360/50]] ** [[SODA (operating system)|SODA]] for [[Elwro]]'s [[Odra (computer)|Odra 1204]] ** [[Universal Time-Sharing System]] ([[Scientific Data Systems|XDS]] Sigma series) * 1967 ** [[IBM CP-40|CP-40]], predecessor to CP-67 on modified [[IBM System/360 Model 40]] ** [[CP-67]] (IBM, also known as [[CP/CMS]]) ** [[Conversational Programming System]] (CPS), an IBM time-sharing system under [[OS/360]] ** [[Michigan Terminal System]] (MTS)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clock.org/~jss/work/mts/timeline.html |title=Michigan Terminal System: Time Line |publisher=Clock.org |access-date=2012-10-19}}</ref> (time-sharing system for the IBM S/360-67 and successors) ** [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]] (MIT's Incompatible Timesharing System for the DEC PDP-6 and PDP-10) ** OS/360 [[OS/MVT|MVT]] ** [[ORVYL and WYLBUR|ORVYL]] (Stanford University's time-sharing system for the IBM S/360-67) ** [[TSS (operating system)|TSS/360]] (IBM's Time-sharing System for the S/360-67, never officially released, canceled in 1969 and again in 1971) ** [[WAITS]] ([[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|SAIL]], Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, time-sharing system for DEC PDP-6 and PDP-10, later TOPS-10) * 1968 ** [[IBM Airline Control Program|Airline Control Program (ACP)]] (IBM) ** [[NCR Century 100|B1]] (NCR Century series)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ncr/NCR_DataPro_Reports/70C-656-01_7208_NCR_Century_Series.pdf|title=25 Years of Real-Time Computing by Todd Poynor|website=bitsavers.org|date=August 1991|access-date=June 24, 2024}}</ref> ** CALL/360, an IBM time-sharing system for System/360 ** [[HP 2100|Real-Time Executive]] (RTE) โ Hewlett-Packard<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/21xx/poyner1.htm|title=25 Years of Real-Time Computing by Todd Poynor|website=bitsavers.org|date=August 1, 1972|access-date=July 16, 2024}}</ref> ** [[THE multiprogramming system]] ([[Eindhoven University of Technology]]) publication ** [[TSS/8]] (DEC for the PDP-8) ** [[VP/CSS]] * 1969 ** [[NCR Century 100|B2]] (NCR Century series)<ref name=NCR01>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ncr/NCR_DataPro_Reports/70C-656-01_7601_NCR_Century_Series.pdf|title=Datapro – NCR Century Series (70C-656-01a Computers)|website=bitsavers.org|access-date=June 24, 2024}}</ref> ** [[NCR Century 100|B3]] (NCR Century series)<ref name=NCR01></ref> ** [[GEORGE (operating system)#GEORGE 3 & 4|GEORGE 3]] For [[International Computers Limited|ICL]] [[ICT 1900 series|1900 series]] ** [[Multics]] (MIT, GE, Bell Labs for the [[GE 645|GE-645]] and later the [[Honeywell 6000 series|Honeywell 6180]]) (''opened for paying customers in October''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.multicians.org/history.html|title=Multics History|access-date=March 15, 2015}}</ref>) ** [[RC 4000 Multiprogramming System]] ([[Regnecentralen|RC]]) ** [[TENEX (operating system)|TENEX]] ([[BBN Technologies|Bolt, Beranek and Newman]] for DEC systems, later [[TOPS-20]]) ** [[Unix|Unics (later Unix)]] ([[AT&T Corporation|AT&T]], initially on DEC computers) ** [[Xerox Operating System]]
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