Quick Answer: What Was the First Operating System?
Contents in 1991, While Studying Computer Science at University of Helsinki, Linus Torvalds Began a Project That Later Became the Linux Kernel. He Wrote the...
In 1991, while studying computer science at University of Helsinki, Linus Torvalds began a project that later became the Linux kernel.
He wrote the program specifically for the hardware he was using and independent of an operating system because he wanted to use the functions of his new PC with an 80386 processor.Unix.
Unix (/ˈjuːnɪks/; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.Android version history
| Code name | Version number | Initial release date |
|---|---|---|
| Froyo | 2.2 – 2.2.3 | May 20, 2010 |
| Gingerbread | 2.3 – 2.3.7 | December 6, 2010 |
| Honeycomb | 3.0 – 3.2.6 | February 22, 2011 |
| Ice Cream Sandwich | 4.0 – 4.0.4 | October 18, 2011 |
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What came first Linux or Windows?
Windows 1.0 was released in 1985 [1], Linux kernel was first released in 1991 [2]. The first distro appeared in 1992 [3]. It’s worth mentioning that UNIX appeared way before any of these, in 1971 [4]. The first BSD in 1978 [5].
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