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TOPS-10: /topsˇten/, 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.
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