include: R-L Monitor, also referred to as MS/8. P?S/8, requiring only 4K of memory. PDP-8 4K Disk Monitor System PS/8 ("Programming System/8"), requiring...
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The PDP-8 Disk Monitor is a discontinued operating system released by Digital Equipment Corporation for their PDP-8 line of mini-computers. The minimum...
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a disk oriented system, faster than its predecessor, the PDP-8 4K Disk Monitor System, with tricks to make it run quickly on DECtape based systems. Still...
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using direct memory access, opening the system to a wide variety of peripherals. The PDP–11 replaced the PDP–8 in many real-time computing applications...
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PDP-8 operating systems: OS/8, released in 1971 TSS/8, released in 1968 MS/8, released in 1966 PDP-8 4K Disk Monitor System, released in 1965 Exec 8,...
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foreground/background monitor PDP-15/35: Added a 524K-word fixed-head disk drive PDP-15/40: 24K memory PDP-15/50: PDP-15/76: 15/40 plus PDP-11 frontend. The PDP-15/76...
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RSTS/E (category PDP-11)
multi-user time-sharing operating system developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, now part of Hewlett-Packard) for the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers...
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the same disks for the file system and for paging. Virtual memory is managed by UMMPS with assistance from the Paging Device Processor (PDP) job program...
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Television (section Disk)
image. Although he never built a working model of the system, variations of Nipkow's spinning-disk "image rasterizer" became exceedingly common. Constantin...
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Microsoft BASIC (redirect from Stand-alone Disk BASIC)
Microsoft BASIC family of 8-bit interpreters (Altair BASIC, TRS-80 BASIC, etc), features and commands inspired by DEC's PDP-10 BASIC-PLUS include: the...
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Booting (redirect from Boot monitor)
2022-10-09. PDP-9 User Handbook (PDF). Digital Equipment Corporation. January 1968. p. 10-3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09. PDP-15 Systems Reference...
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virtual 4K PDP-8; many of the utilities users run on these virtual machines are modified versions of utilities from the Disk Monitor System or paper-tape...
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Non-linear editing (redirect from Digital non-linear editing system)
preview video. The left monitor was used to display the edited video. A DEC PDP-11 computer served as a controller for the whole system. Because the video...
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Binary prefix (category Numeral systems)
4K Sector Transition Frequently Asked Questions" (PDF). Seagate Technology. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-07-15. "IBM100 – The Floppy Disk"...
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Samsung Electronics (redirect from Samsung Smart Monitors)
"Samsung's 240Hz 4K Mini LED 32-inch monitor goes on sale for $1,500". The Verge. Retrieved 9 March 2024. "Samsung's First 4K Gaming Monitor With 240Hz Refresh...
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Honeywell 316 (section System software)
temperature-monitoring computer until summer 2000, when the internal 160k disk failed. Two PDP-11/70s, which had previously been secondary monitors, were moved...
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History of video games (section 8-bit consoles)
exhibition system. Developed in 1961 for the PDP-1 mainframe computer at MIT, it allowed two players to simulate a space combat fight on the PDP-1's point-plotting...
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Television set (redirect from TV system)
TVs are typically capable of high-definition display (720p, 1080i, 1080p, 4K, 8K) and can also play content from a USB device. Mechanical televisions were...
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and FOCAL was a version designed to run in very small memory systems, notably the PDP-8, which often shipped with 4 KB of main memory. By the late 1960s...
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Motorola 6800 (category 8-bit microprocessors)
6809) based computers and, after disk systems became available, operating systems and disk software as well. The 8080 systems were far more popular than the...
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MOS Technology 6502 (category 8-bit microprocessors)
mode, similar to that found on the PDP-8, that accesses memory locations from addresses 0 to 255 with a single 8-bit address (saving the cycle normally...
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November 2004, was about 60%. While PDP sets occupy the high-end market with units that are over 50 inches (1270 mm), PDP and CRT set shares are about 20%...
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remote terminals. This general model became popular on minicomputer systems like the PDP-11 and Data General Nova in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Hewlett-Packard...
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first car navigation system with a map display, using a small CRT display. Navigation system with high resolution display and disk storage — In 1987, the...
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