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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Crosswords: TOPS-10 |
| Specialty definitions using "TOPS-10": Control Program for Microcomputers, cookie monster ♦ JRL ♦ PPN ♦ Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language ♦ TELNET, TYMCOM-X. (references) |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 50 53 2D 31 30 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 01010000 01010011 00101101 00110001 00110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O P S - 1 0 |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0050 0053 002D 0031 0030 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54495053151918 |
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