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2 definitions for TOPS-10 From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) : TOPS-10 /tops-ten/ n. DEC's proprietary OS for the fabled PDP-10 machines, long a favorite of hackers but now effectively extinct. A fountain of hacker folklore; see Appendix A. See also {ITS, {TOPS-20, {TWENEX}, VMS, operating system. TOPS-10 was sometimes called BOTS-10 (from `bottoms-ten') as a comment on the inappropriateness of describing it as the top of anything.From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :
TOPS-10
/tops-ten/ DEC's proprietary OS for the fabled PDP-10
machines, long a favourite of hackers but now effectively
extinct. A fountain of hacker folklore. See also ITS,
TOPS-20, TWENEX, VMS, operating system. TOPS-10 was
sometimes called BOTS-10 (from "bottoms-ten") as a comment on
the inappropriateness of describing it as the top of anything.
[{Jargon File]
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