TOPS for PC, from sun

From: will emerson <wpe_at_interserv.com>
Date: Mon Aug 24 20:59:28 1998

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> > (TOPS-20 on a PC! The horror!)
> > -------
Judging by the horrors of Microslop's stuff, I dunno' 'bout that...
>
> Seems there is some confusion here. TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 were DEC
> operating systems for the 36-bit DEC-10 and DEC-20 mainframes, circa
> late 60's (DEC-10) thru late 70's (DEC-20). TOPS dies when the VAX came
> out, thought there are vestiges left in VMS.

        Jeez, when I worked for them, we kept TOPS-10 on a KL1091 up
until about 1988, then we migrated it to a KL2060 (formerly running
V12 (I think) TOPS-20).. At that point, it was TOPS-10 V7.02.. TOPS
didn't die (IMHO, 'course I'm biased...), although the console message
[%DECsystem-10 Not Running] followed by STOPCODE KAF would tell me that
I had work to do before production was back up and running.....
    Migrating TOPS-10/20 production to VMS was another "adventure"..

                                                 Will
Received on Mon Aug 24 1998 - 20:59:28 BST