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TOPS-10

Specialty Definition: TOPS-10

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Computing

TOPS-10 /tops-ten/ n. DEC's proprietary OS for the fabled PDP-10 machines, long a favorite of hackers but now effectively extinct. A fountain of hacker folklore; see Appendix A. See also {ITS, {TOPS-20, {TWENEX, VMS, operating system. TOPS-10 was sometimes called BOTS-10 (from `bottoms-ten') as a comment on the inappropriateness of describing it as the top of anything. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: TOPS-10

Specialty definitions using "TOPS-10": Control Program for Microcomputers, cookie monsterJRLPPNStanford Artificial Intelligence LanguageTELNET, TYMCOM-X. (references)

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Anagrams: TOPS-10

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "0-1-o-p-s-t"

-2 letters: opts, post, pots, spot, stop, tops.

-3 letters: ops, opt, pot, sop, sot, top.

-4 letters: op, os, so, to.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TOPS-10


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F 50 53 2D 31 30

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 01010000 01010011 00101101 00110001 00110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#80 &#83 &#45 &#49 &#48

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 0050 0053 002D 0031 0030

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54495053151918

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