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Chan, Sam. "Microsoft Operating Systems Timeline- Bravo Technology System- By Sam C. Chan." __Microsoft Operating Systems Timeline__. 1 Nov 2007. Bravo Technology System. 13 Dec 2007 <[|http://bravotech.us/info/msos-timeline.html]

Origins 1. "History of Operating Systems." __History of Operating Systems__. 17 Dec 2007 <[|http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/OpSystems/Myos/osHistory.htm>.] The first operating system is the IBM 701 in the 1950's. These operating systems usually ran one job at a time. Since it ran only one job at a time the programs and data were sent through batched so they were called single-stream batch processing.

2. "Software History." __softhist__. 13 Dec 2007 <[|http://library.thinkquest.org/18268/History/softhist.htm.] 1956 Bob Patrick and Owen Mock created the first operating system for the computer IBM 704. This operating system combined commands into new commands.

3. "What is Linux." Linux Online. 2 July 2007. Linux Online, Inc. 18 Dec 2007 <[|http://www.linux.org/info/>.] Linux is a operating systems that was founded in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. This operating system is free but is mainly used as a server platform.

4. Allman, W.F. "Evolutionary revolutionary." __U.S. News & World Report__ 109.25 (24 Dec. 1990): 49. __Academic Search Elite__. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 7 January 2008. <[|http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.queenslibrary.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&AN=9012242165&site=ehost-live>.] 1980 Bill Gates' MS-DOS is the operating system on all IBM computers. All IBM computers use MS-DOS software on over 50 million machines.

5. "Windows History : Windows Desktop Products History." __Windows__. 2 Mar 2006. Microsoft Corperation. 19 Dec 2007 <[|http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryDesktop.mspx>.] Windows 95 was created in 1995. With Windows 95 it had a 32-bit TCP/IP that made it easy to install software and hardware.

6. "LINDOWS.COM DELIVERS FIRST 'BROADBAND OS,' LINDOWSOS SPX." __Press Reasearch__. 4 June 2002. Linspire Inc.. 19 Dec 2007 <[|http://www.linspire.com/lindows_news_pressreleases_archives.php?all=1&id=9>.] LindowsOS SPX is an operating system developed in 2002. It uses broadband technology to the fullest. This is the first operating system that had sold a memership componet.

7. "Linux defended." __eWeek__ 20.26 (30 June 2003): 44. __Academic Search Elite__. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 9 January 2008. . June 30, 2003 Linus Torvalds was interviewed about the legal disupte concerning the open software on Linux kernel. This shows that Linux is gaining more populartity in the world of operating systems and major companies realized this.

8. "What is Linux?." Linux Online- About the Linux Operating System. 2 Jul 2007. Linux Online Inc. 11 Jan 2008  December 2003 the most modern version of Linux 2.6 was avaliable

9. "The "Wow" Starts Now." Windows Vista. 2007. Microsoft Coorperation. 21 Dec 2007 <[|http://www.microsoft.com/canada/windowsvista/getready/wow.mspx>.] January 30th 2007 Windows Vista debuted and it is now the state of the art version available for Windows.

10. Keizer, Gregg. "Office for Mac Was Almost No More." __Macworld__ 24.5 (May 2007): 30-30. __Academic Search Elite__. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 9 January 2008. . May 2007 Windows is hesitant to keep the mac version of the windows operating system on the shelves

11. "Apple Sells Two Million Copies of Mac OS X Leopard in First Weekend." Apple. 30 Oct 2007. Apple Inc.. 21 Dec 2007 <[|http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/10/30macosx.html>.] October 27, 2007 Apple's Mac OS X Leopard is the state of the art version available in operating systems.