Editing TinyOS (section)

==History==
TinyOS began as a project at UC Berkeley as part of the [[DARPA]] NEST program. It has since grown to involve thousands of academic and commercial developers and users worldwide. (list in reverse chronological order)
* August 2012: TinyOS 2.1.2 released
* April 2010: TinyOS 2.1.1 released.
* August 2008: TinyOS 2.1.0 released.
* July 2007: TinyOS 2.0.2 released. Work on TinyOS 2.1, which involves slight changes to a few interfaces, begins.
* April 2007: TinyOS 2.0.1 released at the 4th TinyOS Technology Exchange in Cambridge, MA.
* November 2006: TinyOS 2.0 released at the SenSys conference in Boulder, CO.
* July 2006: TinyOS 2.0 beta2 released.
* February 2006: TinyOS 2.0 beta1 released at the 3rd TinyOS Technology Exchange in Stanford, CA.
* December 2005: TinyOS 1.1.15, the last 1.1 version, is released.
* July 2005: NEST project concludes.
* June 2004: Working group forms on next steps for TinyOS, based on experiences porting to new platforms. Group agrees to start work on 2.0.
* September 2003 – December 2005: TinyOS begins a periodic minor release process. 
* August 2003: TinyOS version 1.1 is released, which includes new nesC features including data race detection.
* September 2002: TinyOS version 1.0, implemented in nesC, is released.
* April 2002: Work on the nesC programming language begins as a collaboration between Intel Research and UC Berkeley.
* February 2002: Berkeley distributes 1000 mica nodes to other participants in the NEST project.
* 2001: Berkeley develops the mica platform and releases TinyOS version 0.6.
* 2000: Berkeley designs the rene platform and partners with Crossbow, Inc., who mass-produces the hardware. TinyOS version 0.43 is made available to the public via SourceForge. Pre-1.0 versions of TinyOS are a mix of C and [[Perl]] scripts.
* 1999: First TinyOS platform (WeC) and OS implementations are developed at Berkeley.

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