TOPS-10

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:TOPS-10:: /tops-ten/ /n./ DECs 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.
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