{DEC}'s proprietary OS for the fabled {PDP-10} machines, long a
favorite of hackers but now long 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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {ADVENT}{cookie monster}{CP/M}{Internet}{operating system}{PDP-10}{PDP-20}{VMS}{WAITS}]