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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>TOPS-10</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="topic-group.html" title="topic group"/><link rel="next" href="TOPS-20.html" title="TOPS-20"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">TOPS-10</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="topic-group.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TOPS-20.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="TOPS-10"/><dt xmlns="" id="TOPS-10"><b>TOPS-10</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/tops·ten/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> <a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a>'s proprietary OS for the fabled
<a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a> machines, long a favorite of hackers but now
long extinct. A fountain of hacker folklore; see Appendix A. See also
<a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a>, <a href="TOPS-20.html"><i class="glossterm">TOPS-20</i></a>,
<a href="TWENEX.html"><i class="glossterm">TWENEX</i></a>, <a href="../V/VMS.html"><i class="glossterm">VMS</i></a>,
<a href="../O/operating-system.html"><i class="glossterm">operating system</i></a>. TOPS-10 was sometimes called
BOTS-10 (from &#8216;bottoms-ten&#8217;) as a comment on the
inappropriateness of describing it as the top of anything.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="topic-group.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="TOPS-20.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">topic group </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> TOPS-20</td></tr></table></div></body></html>