Notes on  TOPS-10 

DEC's proprietary OS for the fabled PDP-10 machines, long a
favorite of hackers but now long 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.

J3N Research Labs

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