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> TENEX was the first operating system that DEC did for the PDP 10 architecture No, that's TOPS-10. TENEX was TEN EXtended, the OS BBN did for the PDP-10 they

by msla 8y ago

> TENEX was the first operating system that DEC did for the PDP 10 architecture No, that's TOPS-10. TENEX was TEN EXtended, the OS BBN did for the PDP-10 they extended to have paged virtual memory. TENEX is an ancestor to TOPS-20, which was a DEC product. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=361271 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=361271 > TENEX is a new time sharing system implemented on a DEC PDP-10 augmented by special paging hardware developed at BBN. https://github.com/PDP-10/tenex https://github.com/PDP-10/tenex (Lots more old -10 stuff at the user account, like WAITS and ITS.)

ChuckMcM 8y ago
Oh that is awesome I stand corrected, thanks. At USC's engineering computer laboratory (at one time in the late 70's / early 80's running 7 different 10's) the install history was TENEX (given the association with BBN I expect that was why that machine was on the ARPAnet) then came TOPS-10 for some of the undergraduate accessible machines and then the TENEX machines got TOPS-20 as an upgrade. Clearly the lore as passed along to me when I was an systems programmer in one of the sister labs was incorrect. Now I have to figure out how to erase these cuniform tablets! :-)