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From: rs@eddie.mit.edu (Robert E. Seastrom)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc
Subject: Re: MULTICS and the Jargon File
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.160233.16283@eddie.mit.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 16:02:33 GMT
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eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>
>Eh? I've been told that, leaving out the odd university relic and that
>museum piece in Sweden, there are exactly *two* active PDP-10 sites left
>and one of them is CompuServe.

"Reports of my recent demise have been greatly exaggerated" - Mark Twain

I can think of 3 or 4 commercial Tops-10 installations right off
the top of my head, one used-equipment dealer who specializes in
DECsystem-10 and DECSYSTEM-20 CPUs and peripherals, and 5 private
individuals (including myself) who own DECSYSTEM 2020s - a total of 11
or so machines in all.  There are at least a half dozen 2060s still on
the Internet.

Dave Sill <de5@ornl.gov> writes:
>
>We've got one here running TOPS-10 (aka TENEX)
>

No.  TOPS-10 is a descendent of the PDP-6 and PDP-10 single-user
DECtape and disk monitors.  TENEX was developed at BBN, subsequently
licensed to DEC, hacked on a lot, and then sold as TOPS-20.  Digital
did everything in their power to discourage use of the term "twenex".

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