Re: The history of the MONITOR tops-10)

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From: ma...
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 11:29

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On 2018-07-14, Gareth's Downstairs Computer <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 14/07/2018 07:51, ma...@mail.com wrote:
>> On 2018-07-13, Stephen M. Jones <mart...@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>>> Has anyone created a definitive timeline for the PDP-6 monitor that
>>> became  TOPS-10 as well as showing modifications that Tymshare, SAIl,
>>> Compuserve and others made to the code?
>>>
>>> Does version 2.18 exist? Is 4.5 sources the earliest out there at the
>>> moment?
>> 
>> Earth calling /BAH
>> 
>> 
>
> One tended to be overawed by the PDP10 series, but I wonder if
> its operating systems would seem rather infra dig compared to Linux
> today?
>

It wwould have been upgraded too. (never, (knowingly) used it.)


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