TOPS, OS or network?

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Sun Oct 28 16:49:16 2001

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:13:56PM -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> > TOPS the OS vs TOPS the network, are they related?
>
> If you're wanting to know about TOPS-10 or TOPS-20 then I recommend my
> PDP-10 emulation web page as a starting point:
>
> http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/pdp10emu.html
>
> If you're wanting to know about the network, isn't that some sort of ancient
> Macintosh thing?

Yes, and it seemed to me Mike's question was _why_ the network has
the same name as the OS. Coincidence or something more sinister? :)

I know that TOPS (the OS) stands for "Total Operating System". I don't
know what the name of the network stands for.

-- Derek
Received on Sun Oct 28 2001 - 16:49:16 GMT

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