[1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

twenex /twe'neks/ n. the tops-20 operating system by dec -- the
   second proprietary os for the pdp-10 -- preferred by most pdp-10 hackers
   over tops-10 that is, by those who were not its or waits
   partisans. tops-20 began in 1969 as bolt, beranek  newman's tenex
   operating system using special paging hardware. by the early 1970s,
   almost all of the systems on the arpanet ran tenex. dec purchased the
   rights to tenex from bbn and began work to make it their own. the first
   in-house code name for the operating system was viros virtual memory
   operating system; when customers started asking questions, the name was
   changed to snark so dec could truthfully deny that there was any project
   called viros. when the name snark became known, the name was briefly
   reversed to become krans; this was quickly abandoned when someone
   objected that `krans' meant `funeral wreath' in swedish though some
   swedish speakers have since said it means simply `wreath'; this part of
   the story may be apocryphal. ultimately dec picked tops-20 as the name
   of the operating system, and it was as tops-20 that it was marketed. the
   hacker community, mindful of its origins, quickly dubbed it twenex a
   contraction of `twenty tenex', even though by this point very little of
   the original tenex code remained analogously to the differences between
   att v6 unix and bsd. dec people cringed when they heard "twenex", but
   the term caught on nevertheless the written abbreviation `20x' was also
   used. twenex was successful and very popular; in fact, there was a
   period in the early 1980s when it commanded as fervent a culture of
   partisans as unix or its -- but dec's decision to scrap all the internal
   rivals to the vax architecture and its relatively stodgy vms os killed
   the dec-20 and put a sad end to twenex's brief day in the sun. dec
   attempted to convince tops-20 users to convert to vms, but instead, by
   the late 1980s, most of the tops-20 hackers had migrated to unix.


see also:
dec its waits vms 

[2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

twenex
     
         /twe'neks/ the tops-20 operating system
        by dec - the second proprietary os for the pdp-10 -
        preferred by most pdp-10 hackers over tops-10 that is, by
        those who were not its or waits partisans.  tops-20 began
        in 1969 as bolt, beranek  newman's tenex operating system
        using special paging hardware.  by the early 1970s, almost all
        of the systems on the arpanet ran tenex.  dec purchased the
        rights to tenex from bbn and began work to make it their own.
        the first in-house code name for the operating system was
        viros virtual memory operating system; when customers
        started asking questions, the name was changed to snark so dec
        could truthfully deny that there was any project called viros.
        when the name snark became known, the name was briefly
        reversed to become krans; this was quickly abandoned when
        someone objected that "krans" meant "funeral wreath" in
        swedish though some swedish speakers have since said it means
        simply "wreath"; this part of the story may be apocryphal.
     
        ultimately dec picked tops-20 as the name of the operating
        system, and it was as tops-20 that it was marketed.  the
        hacker community, mindful of its origins, quickly dubbed it
        twenex a contraction of "twenty tenex", even though by this
        point very little of the original tenex code remained
        analogously to the differences between att v6 unix and bsd.
        dec people cringed when they heard "twenex", but the term
        caught on nevertheless the written abbreviation "20x" was
        also used.  twenex was successful and very popular; in fact,
        there was a period in the early 1980s when it commanded as
        fervent a culture of partisans as unix or its - but dec's
        decision to scrap all the internal rivals to the vax
        architecture and its relatively stodgy vms os killed the
        dec-20 and put a sad end to twenex's brief day in the sun.
        dec attempted to convince tops-20 users to convert to vms,
        but instead, by the late 1980s, most of the tops-20 hackers
        had migrated to unix.
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-04-01
     
     
see also:
operating system dec pdp-10 its waits bolt, beranek  newman 
tenex arpanet vms jargon file 

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