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    Programmed Data Processor (PDP), referred to by some customers, media and authors as "Programmable Data Processor," is a term used by the Digital Equipment...
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    assembler; paper-tape input did not have to be read twice. PDP-4 Programmed Data Processor Robert Slater (1989). Portraits in Silicon. MIT Press. p. 210...
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    The PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) is the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series and was first produced in 1959. It is known...
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  • Corporation. October 1969. Programmed Data Processor-5 Handbook (PDF). Digital Equipment Corporation. 1964. p. 12. "Programmed Data Processor-5". "Who Built the...
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    purchasing or leasing computers. The term PDP (Programmed Data Processor or Programmable Data Processor) was a workaround. The name "PDP" intentionally...
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    is the processor frequency (cycles per second). Increases in frequency increase the amount of power used in a processor. Increasing processor power consumption...
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    neither of which accounted for a substantial percentage of sales. Programmed Data Processor PDP-15 - successor to the PDP-9 sometimes identified by customers...
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    from 1970 into the late 1990s, one of a set of products in the Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series. In total, around 600,000 PDP-11s of all models were...
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  • and data parallel computational model approach. This computer consisted of a master (controller processor) and SIMD processors (or vector processor mode...
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    scientific and commercial software application tools.: pp.10/13-10/15  Programmed Data Processor C. Gordon Bell; J. Craig Mudge; John E. McNamara. "Computer Engineering"...
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    The PDP-12 (Programmed Data Processor) is a computer that was created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1969 and marketed specifically for science...
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  • features. Early word processors were stand-alone devices dedicated to the function, but current word processors are word processor programs running on general...
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    PDP-10 (section Data types)
    main processor, which is typically booted from the same RP06 disk drive as the PDP-11. The PDP-11 performs watchdog functions once the main processor is...
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  • In the C programming language, data types constitute the semantics and characteristics of storage of data elements. They are expressed in the language...
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  • function like a stream processor with appropriate software support. It consists of a controlling processor, the PPE (Power Processing Element, an IBM PowerPC)...
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  • The PDP-16 (Programmed Data Processor-16) was mainly intended for industrial control systems, but with more capability than DEC's PDP-14. The PDP-16 family...
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  • 5000-21005. Retrieved 8 February 2024. "Push-Down Instructions" (PDF). Programmed Data Processor 6 - Handbook (PDF). p. 37. Retrieved 8 February 2024. Guy Lewis...
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  • Preprocessor (redirect from Pre-processor)
    preprocessor (or precompiler) is a program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input in another program. The output is said to be a...
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  • Electronic data processing (EDP) or business information processing can refer to the use of automated methods to process commercial data. Typically, this...
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    RAM) DECSYSTEM-2040: KL10 ECL processor with up to 1024 kilowords of magnetic core RAM DECSYSTEM-2050: KL10 ECL processor with 2k words of cache and up...
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  • signal intensity as a function of time delay Primary Data Point in the RRDtool Programmed Data Processor, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) minicomputers...
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    1976. p. 4-25. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09. Programmed Data Processor-7 Users Handbook (PDF). Digital Equipment Corporation. 1965. p...
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  • outcomes of several bets in sequence. Running average Prefix sum Programmed Data Processor-1 Manual (PDF). Maynard, Massachusetts: Digital Equipment Corporation...
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    A data processing unit (DPU) is a programmable computer processor that tightly integrates a general-purpose CPU with network interface hardware. Sometimes...
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  • in use by a particular processor, which all compiled programs must use. Most processors support a similar set of primitive data types, although the specific...
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    The PDP-6, short for Programmed Data Processor model 6, is a computer developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) during 1963 and first delivered...
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  • in the word processor file, for example INTRODUCTION with spacing of 1 em as I N T R O D U C T I O N on the word processor. Successful data conversion...
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    instructions. This leads to complex programs. Offshoots from the PDP-8 are the PDP-12 which has a processor that can run programs for the PDP-8 and LINC systems...
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    for fault tolerance Two-chip General Data Processor (GDP), consists of 43201 and 43202 43203 Interface Processor (IP) interfaces to I/O subsystem 43204...
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  • Similarly, a processing circuitry inside a multi-core processor can transfer data to and from its local memory without occupying its processor time, allowing...
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