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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]


  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]

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) : [ jargon ]


  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
     {ITS" rel="nofollow">fountain of hacker folklore; see Appendix A. See also {ITS,
     {TOPS-20" rel="nofollow">{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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