General comments about TOPS-10 The TOPS-10 System was a computer operating system from
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for the
PDP-10 released in
1964, the resulting systems being referred to as "DECsystem-10".TOPS-10 supported shareable memory and allowed the development of one of the first true multi-player computer games. The game was called
DECWAR and was a text-oriented
Star Trek type game. Users at terminals typed in commands and fought each other in real time.Another groundbreaking application was called FORUM. This application was perhaps the first so-called
"CB simulator" that allowed users to converse with one another in what is now known as a chat room. This application showed the potential of multi-user communication and led to the development of
CompuServe's chat application.
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/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.
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