[Info-vax] Alpha Community licenes.

gah4 gah4 at u.washington.edu
Thu Sep 15 13:20:09 EDT 2022


On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 10:39:20 PM UTC-7, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> gah4 wrote: 
> > I remember EXE back to TOPS-10 days, but that was before I knew 
> > about RT-11. Somewhere in the DEC days, anyway.

> I don't know if TOPS-10 or TOPS-20 introduced .EXE first. Or if 
> they did it at the same time? Before that there were things like 
> .SAV and .SHR.

I didn't know about TOPS-20 until some years later.

Yes, the usual TOPS-10 file was .SAV, which you got from the SAVE
command, which pretty much wrote memory to disk. 

I think I remember the transition for TOPS-10, in about 1977.



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