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Amiga OS
Apollo
Apple II
BeOS
Bob
Common Desktop Environment
GEM
GEOS/
GeoWorks
GNOME
IRIX
KDE
Lisa Office System
Mac OS
Magic Cap
Newton OS
NewWave
NeXTSTEP/
OPENSTEP/
Rhapsody
OPEN LOOK
OS/2
Packard Bell Navigator
PenPoint
QNX
RISC OS
Symbian OS/
EPOC
The X Window System
TOS
Visi On
Windows
Windows CE/
Mobile
Xerox Star/
ViewPoint/
GlobalView
1981
Xerox 8010 Star
1981
1982
1982
1983
Lisa Office System 1
19 Jan
Lisa Office System 2
19 May
Visi On
Oct
1983
1984
IRIX 1.0
Lisa Office System 7/7 3
System 1
24 Jan
X Window System 1
May
1984
1985
Workbench 1.0
Sep
GEM
IRIX 2.0
X Window System 9
19
X Window System 10
19
TOS 1.0
Windows 1.0
20 Oct
ViewPoint 1.0
1985
1986
MouseDesk 2.0
DeskTop 1.1
26 Nov
GEM/2
24 Mar
GEOS for C64
Mar
IRIX 3.0
System 3
Jan
1986
1987
GS/OS 2.0
May
GS/OS 3.1
Dec
GEOS for C128
System 4
Mar
ArthurOS
X Window System 11
15 Sep
Windows 2.0
9 Dec
1987
1988
GS/OS 3.2
Jul
GS/OS 4.0
Sep
GEM/3
GEM/5
GEOS 2 for C64
GEOS 2.1 for Apple II
System 6
Jun
NeXTSTEP 0.8
12 Oct
OS/2 1.10
31 Oct
1988
1989
GS/OS 5.0
May
GS/OS 5.0.2
Dec
GEOS 2 for C128
NewWave 1.0
NewWave 2.0
NeXTSTEP 1.0
18 Sep
OPEN LOOK 1.0
Apr
OS/2 1.20
Oct
RISC OS 2
Apr
EPOC/16 (SIBO)
Sep
ViewPoint 2.0
1989
1990
Workbench 2.0
GS/OS 5.0.3
Dec
ViewMAX
OS/90
GeoWorks Ensemble 1.0
Oct
NewWave 3.0
NeXTSTEP 2.0
18 Sep
OPEN LOOK 2.0
OPEN LOOK 3.0
OPEN LOOK 4.0
10 Dec
OS/2 1.30
Dec
QNX 4.0
TOS 3.0
Windows 3.0
22 May
GlobalView 1.0
20 Sep
1990
1991
GS/OS 5.0.4
Feb
GeoWorks Ensemble 1.2
IRIX 4.0
System 7
May
RISC OS 3
Sep
TOS 2.0
Mar
1991
1992
Workbench 3.0
GS/OS 6.0
Mar
GeoWorks Pro
IRIX 5.0
NewWave 4.0
NeXTSTEP 3.0
Sep
OS/2 2
Mar
PenPoint 1.0
22 Jan
TOS 4.0
Windows 3.1
6 Apr
1992
1993
GS/OS 6.0.1
CDE 1.0
GeoWorks Ensemble 2.0
Geopublish 2.0
Newton OS 1.0
3 Aug
Packard Bell Navigator 1.0
Windows NT 3.1
27 Jul
1993
1994
Amiga OS 3.1
Geoworks Ensemble 2.01
Magic Cap 1.0
29 Sep
OS/2 Warp 3
Oct
Packard Bell Navigator 2.0
10 Mar
RISC OS 3.5
Apr
Windows NT 3.5
21 Sep
1994
1995
Bob
31 Mar
IRIX 6.0
System 7.5
Jan
Magic Cap 1.5
30 Oct
Packard Bell Navigator 3.0
Windows 95
24 Aug
1995
1996
NewDeal Office 2.5
NewDeal Publish 2.5
Magic Cap 2.0
Magic Cap for Windows
7 Oct
Newton OS 2.0
OPENSTEP 4.0
22 Jul
OS/2 Warp 4
Sep
Windows NT 4.0
24 Aug
Windows CE 1.0
Nov
GlobalView 2.0
1996
1997
BeOS PR
Jul
NewDeal Office 97
Mac OS 8
22 Jul
Magic Cap 3.0
12 Feb
Rhapsody
Sep
EPOC R1-R3
Windows CE 2.0
29 Sep
1997
1998
BeOS R3
Apr
BeOS R4
Dec
NewDeal Office 98
IRIX 6.5
May
KDE 1.0
12 Jul
EPOC R4
Windows 98
25 Jun
1998
1999
Amiga OS 3.5
NewDeal Office 3
Jan
NewDeal Office 3 Eval.
Jan
GNOME 1.0
Mar
Mac OS X Server
16 Mar
Mac OS 9
23 Oct
RISC OS 4
Jul
EPOC R5
1999
2000
Amiga OS 3.9
4 Dec
BeOS R5
18 Jan
BeIA
7 Feb
NewDeal Office 3.2
Jan
KDE 2.0
23 Oct
Symbian OS 6.0
Sep
Windows 2000
17 Feb
Windows Millennium Edition
14 Sep
Windows CE 3.0
15 Jun
2000
2001
NewDeal Office 2000
Mac OS X
24 Mar
eComStation 1.0
10 Jul
QNX 6.0
Windows XP
25 Oct
2001
2002
BreadBox Ensemble
BreadBox Ensemble Lite
GNOME 2.0
Jun
KDE 3.0
3 Apr
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
23 Aug
Windows CE 4.0
7 Jan
2002
2003
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
24 Oct
eComStation 1.1
18 Apr
Symbian OS 7.0
Apr
Windows Server 2003
24 Apr
2003
2004
eComStation 1.2
18 Dec
Symbian OS 8.0
Feb
Windows CE 5.0
Jul
2004
2005
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
29 Apr
2005
2006
Amiga OS 4.0
(tent.)
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
(tent.)
Symbian OS 9.0
(tent.)
Windows CE 6.0
(tent.)
2006
2007
Windows Vista
(tent.)
2007
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Marcin Wichary
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