Firsts

From: Daniel A. Seagraves <DSEAGRAV_at_toad.xkl.com>
Date: Tue Jan 20 15:54:15 1998

What's TOPS-20? (Time to demonstrate my ignorance...)

TOPS-20 came after TOPS-20. It means Total OPerating System.
It runs on DEC-10s, and on XKL's TD-1. It has all sortsa nice things,
batch queues and ARPAnet stuff... It has compilers/interpreters
for more languages that you can count, and it's as close to an ITS box as I can get.
XKLeTen runs it, and so does Toad. I'm not sure if the TD-1 can run
other operating systems...
It's a neat trick. If even lets you do stuff *BEFORE* you log on,
like if you telnet to toad and say SYSTAT, it'll sho you who's on,
and what they're doing, without caring who/what you are...
It's fun. It's 36-bits, older than I am, and I don't know **** about it,
so I still have stuff to learn.
And no, I haven't crashed it yet screwing around.
If you mail whomeveritwas(xkleten-admin?)_at_paulallen.com, you can get
a TOPS-20 account on his TD-1.
Than you cn see it for yourself.
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