tops-10

2 definitions found

tops-10 - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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]
  

tops-10 - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  TOPS-10
   /tops.ten/, n.
  
     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.