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by vincent-manis 38 days ago
Versioned files existed in Tenex, developed by Bolt Beranek and Newman in the early 1970s; version numbering was based on a similar feature in MIT's Incompatible Timesharing System. DEC's variant of Tenex was eventually called TOPS-20. Many features of VAX/VMS were influenced by Tenex/Tops-20.