meaning of tops 10

1. TOPS-10 /tops-ten/ DECs 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. [Jargon File] TOPS-20 TWENEX Tornado The software development environment previously distributed with VxWorks.


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