Path: news3.best.com!news2.best.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.skycache.com!portc01.blue.aol.com!portc.blue.aol.com!cyclone-east.rr.com!news.rr.com!news-east.rr.com!cyclone-west.rr.com!news.rr.com|news-west.rr.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!lsanca1-snf1!news.gtei.net!news.lava.net!news.hawaii.edu!not-for-mail From: Jim Thomas Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: TOPS-10 dates and features Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:33:14 -1000 Organization: Canada France Hawai`i Telescope Corporation Lines: 24 Message-ID: <38D67CF9.E11E5DD4@cfht.hawaii.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: saturn.cfht.hawaii.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.hawaii.edu 953580794 13128 128.171.80.131 (20 Mar 2000 19:33:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@hawaii.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Mar 2000 19:33:14 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; HP-UX B.10.20 9000/735) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: news3.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:7188 Is there a decent list of dates and features of TOPS-10 versions? I don't see much of one on Joe's nice page. (It references Compaq's Digital timeline pages - which don't get it right either. They show a picture of a KI-10 in 1971 as the first DECsystem-10 and another picture in 1972 as the first KI-10. :-) They also tout DECNET in 1975 neglecting ANF-10.) I'd be willing to take a wild stab at it; though I was mostly only a user, only active from 73 to 81, and have only a KI-10 reference card left from my collection :-( Nothead 1969 - 4N50/4S50 - Swapping? 1970 - 4S72 - high segments 1971 - 5.01 - KI-10, paging ???? - 5.02 - the first even numbered one to avoid ? 1973 - 5.03 - SFD's and PATH's ? 197? - 5.05 - FILDAE (or was that 5.07?) 1975 - 6.01 - KL-10 ?