4 Dec
2015
4 Dec
'15
3:53 p.m.
From: Johnny Billquist
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 2:11 PM
On 2015-12-04 21:52, Phil Budne wrote:
> Rich wrote:
>> [1] "Tops-10" was simply a renaming
of an operating system which began on
>> the PDP-6 in 1964 and continued in an uninterrupted line of
>> development up through the final release, Tops-10 v7.04 (1988), and
>> maintenance (v7.05, 1993).
> Are you sure about the captialization
"Tops"?
> I thought TOPS-10 ran on the DECsystem-10,
> while TOPS-20 ran on the DECSYSTEM-20.
Rich is correct. It's "Tops-10", but
"TOPS-20". Water under the bridge...
I can't remember the correct capitalization of DECsystem, though. Maybe
that too differed?
Both DECsystem-10 and Decsystem-10 appear in DEC documents of different dates,
the latter possibly appearing in non-LCG documents.
Rich
Rich Alderson
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