TYMCOM-X
<operating system> Tymshare's operating system which ran for many years
on Tymshare's PDP-10s. It was a descendent of TOPS-10 but had many of the
important features of TOPS-20 such as real paging and controllable/spawnable
processes. TYMCOM-X, one of the best kept secrets in the PDP-10 folklore, was
written by Bill Weiher, Vance Socci
<vsocci@vcctech.com>, Allen Ginzburg, Karen Kolling, Art Atkinson, Gary
Morgenthaler (founder of the company that produced IDRIS), Todd Corenson and
Murray Bowles. Some copies still run today. Most TYMNET development was done
under TYMCOM-X and Tymshare sold a TYMCOM-X system to TRW to use in their credit
reporting network, which was based on a purchased copy of TYMNET circa 1979.
[E-mail from Vance Socci 1994-05-20].
(1995-11-09)
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