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  TYMCOM-X
       
           Tymshare's operating system which ran
          for many years on Tymshare's PDP-10s.  It was a descendent
          of TOPS-10 but had many of the important features of
          TOPS-20 such as real paging and controllable/spawnable
          processes.  TYMCOM-X, one of the best kept secrets in the
          PDP-10 folklore, was written by Bill Weiher, Vance Socci
          , Allen Ginzburg, Karen Kolling, Art
          Atkinson, Gary Morgenthaler (founder of the company that
          produced IDRIS), Todd Corenson and Murray Bowles.  Some
          copies still run today.  Most TYMNET development was done
          under TYMCOM-X and Tymshare sold a TYMCOM-X system to TRW to
          use in their credit reporting network, which was based on a
          purchased copy of TYMNET circa 1979.
       
          [E-mail from Vance Socci 1994-05-20].
       
          (1995-11-09)