Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.2602:f977:0:1::5!not-for-mail From: Rich Alderson Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: TOPS Pascal questions Date: 28 Mar 2026 21:05:54 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 36 Sender: alderson+news@panix5.panix.com Message-ID: References: <87341kbrt8.fsf@atr2.ath.cx> Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="2602:f977:0:1::5"; logging-data="28049"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 22.3 Xref: csiph.com alt.sys.pdp10:9925 jayjwa writes: > I kind of forgot about Pascal, but then I remembered there is Pascal on > TOPS. Working with it, I have a couple of questions. THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". Tops-10 and TOPS-20 share absolutely no code. Tops-10 and TOPS-20 do not use the same system calls. There is a "compatibility package" called PA1050 which mimics a subset of Tops-10 system calls IN USER SPACE to allow a subset of Tops-10 programs to run under TOPS-20. THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS "TOPS". -- Rich Alderson news@alderson.users.panix.com Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur, omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus. --Galen