TOPS-10


TOPS-10

/tops-ten/ DEC's proprietary OS for the fabled PDP-10machines, long a favourite of hackers but now effectivelyextinct. A fountain of hacker folklore. See also ITS,TOPS-20, TWENEX, VMS, operating system. TOPS-10 wassometimes called BOTS-10 (from "bottoms-ten") as a comment onthe inappropriateness of describing it as the top of anything.