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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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.
/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.
TOPS-10 Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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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.
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.
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The TOPS-10 System was a computer operating system from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for the PDP-10 released in 1964, the resulting systems being referred to as "DECsystem-10".TOPS-10 supported shareable memory and allowed the development of one of the first true multi-player computer games. The game was called DECWAR and was a text-oriented Star Trek type game. Users at terminals typed in commands and fought each other in real time.
Another groundbreaking application was called FORUM. This application was perhaps the first so-called "CB simulator" that allowed users to converse with one another in what is now known as a chat room. This application showed the potential of multi-user communication and led to the development of CompuServe's chat application.
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