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Given the recent HN post about an update to the OpenVMS project I thought the same thing when I saw "TOPS-capable." Hmm, maybe some kind of port from long-retir
by johnohara 3y ago
Given the recent HN post about an update to the OpenVMS project I thought the same thing when I saw "TOPS-capable." Hmm, maybe some kind of port from long-retired propeller heads at DEC/Compaq/HP.
Nope. Looked up "4 TOPS" and learned the famed Motown group was still performing
though some of the original members had passed.
Finally determined that "TOPS" did indeed mean "trillion operations per second."
Wasn't so long ago these types of things were only found inside some mountain laboratory surrounded by heavily-guarded 5 mile restricted access perimeters.
~$70.00 sometime in June 2024. Don't tell me the industry isn't still sprinting all-out 54 years after TOPS-10 was first introduced.