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From: jkrueger@daitc.ARPA (Jonathan Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: PDP-10 user I/O (really: third-party operating systems)
Message-ID: <125@daitc.ARPA>
Date: 31 May 88 09:00:07 GMT
References: <46500018@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <5612@aw.sei.cmu.edu> <3327@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: jkrueger@daitc.UUCP (Jonathan Krueger)
Organization: Defense Applied Information Technology Center, Alexandria VA
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In article <3327@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>I can't for
>the life of me remember the name of the native DEC OS that ran on the pdp-10

TOPS-10, originally the Total OPerating System, later renamed The
OPerating System.  I could never tell if DEC was trying to raise
expectations or lower them.  But lo how the mighty are fallen.  It did
enjoy twenty years of service.  It will be interesting to see which
currently widely available operating systems will be remembered when
they hit twenty.  Will you still need them, will you still feed them?
When you've got 64? (address bits, that is).

-- Jon Krueger