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Article #625029Re: The history of the MONITOR tops-10)
From: Peter Flass
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:12
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:12
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Questor <usenet@only.tnx> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 21:32:56 +0000 (UTC), mart...@sdf.lonestar.org (Stephen M. > Jones) 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? > > You might want to narrow your target. TOPS-10 was shipped with complete > sources, and nearly every site, including inside DEC, made modifications -- some > minor, some major. You'd have to start a separate code fork for nearly every > TOPS-10 machine ever sold. Most, if not all of those changes were probably lost > when the machines were scrapped, as they were the property of the companies > that bought those systems. > > >> Does version 2.18 exist? Is 4.5 sources the earliest out there at the >> moment? > > Wouldn't many of these made it onto the DECUS tape? -- Pete
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