Budne_TOPS20_evolution_Aug03
$Id: tops-20,v 1.9 2003/08/12 16:58:15 phil Exp $
TOPS-20 Evolution
Phil Budne
11/70 TENEX project start?
5/1/70 TENEX scheduled delivery date
6/15/70 TENEX Operational
1972 TENEX papers in ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles & FJCC
1973 KI10 TENEX
4/1973 Extended Addressing proposed by Dan Murphy
6/1973 "KL Paging Proposal" by Dan Murphy
5/1974 "New paging design" by Dan Murphy
12/1975 "KL10 Paging rev 2" by Dan Murphy
date release features
2/76 1 First release
4/76 1A LPT, CDR
10/76 1B Maint release
12/76 101B ARPA support
7/77 2 mountable structures, quotas
1/78 3 Tree Structured Directories (larger directories?)
Account Validation
Usage JSYS, support for 2780 and 3780 termination and emulation
integration of ARPANET support
9/78 3A 2060 (MOS memory) & 2020 support
DX20/TX02 magnetic tape controller: TU70/1/2
DECnet Phase II (via DN20)
4/80 4 ANSI Tape Labels, GALAXY 4, ACJ (access control job)
File Archiving, Execute Only protection
RAMP (Reliability and Maintainability Program)
Class scheduler, High Priority Queue,
Enhanced System Performance Reporting
New ARPAnet leader format, Remote Job Entry Station (DN200)
TV Editor Support, HASP support
1/82? 5.0 extended addressing, RP07, TU78, NVT (network virt. terminals)
TTMSG unprivileged
10/82? 5.1 DECnet Phase III (via MCB)
system disk no longer needs to called PS:
12/82? 5.2 TCP/IP support (BBN JSYS interface)
4/83 4.1 Last release for 2020; RP20 Support, SPEAR support, 5.1 EXEC
6/83 5.3 DEC TCP/IP interface (TCP: device)
9/84? 5.4 TCP/IP over Ethernet (NIA20)
11/84? 6.0 CI Clusters (CFS)
Multi-forking EXEC, password encryption, Massbuss dual porting
Monitor data (and MDDT & EXEC DDT) moved to extended sections
9/85 6.1 Ethernet (DECnet Phase IV, LAT, TCP/IP), TCP/IP over CI.
NIA20 autoreload, LAT support, NI% JSYS
CI20 and NIA20 code always on
DECnet Phase IV over DN20, CI, and NIA20 (L1 Router), CTERM
TOPS-10 PPN support
EXEC SEND command
Monitor code moved to extended sections
uCode 407: section 0 OWGBPs, XJRST
6/88 7.0 Cluster-wide ENQ% And DEQ%
uCode 2.1(442) required: PMOVE, PMOVEM support
TU79 support
PS: on HSC50
16 node clusters (upto 4 KL's)
support for 64 disk structures
Host-Initiated (reverse) LAT Connections
Recognition To The Point Of Ambiguity
Minimum Password Length
Galaxy:
Cluster support via NEBULA
cross-cluster printing
printing to TTY, printing via LAT, to DQS server
SEMI-OPR capability
EXEC: DELETE options: /LARGER /SMALLER /BEFORE /AFTER