[HECnet] TOPS-10/20 copyright status

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-11-15 14:13, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014, Johnny Billquist wrote:

This is the state of TOPS-20 at the moment. It is being used as
embedded software, that you'll never see, or hear of. But it's still
alive.


I am very interested in the embedded use of TOPS-20, do you happen to
know of a specific (documented...I want to know all about the thing if
it runs TOPS-20!) product using it?

Unfortunately I do not have much details. I was at the Living Computer Museum and talked with RIch Alderson, who used to work at XKL. And he showed me a newer generation router from XKL, opened up, at LCM. And they use a PDP-10 on a chip, and it was actually running TOPS-20, and I could play around at the EXEC level in there.

But for normal usage, customers would just see this as a router from XKL, with a command interface, in addition to SNMP. No way they would ever know that it's actually TOPS-20 in there.

I do not know if they use this same setup in all their products, or just some. And I don't remember exactly what product LCM at on display. But I can check that up next week, as I am in Seattle then.

	Johnny