The PDP–11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 into the late 1990s, one of a set of products in the... 53 KB (6,531 words) - 05:00, 30 April 2024 |
The PDP-11 architecture is a 16-bit CISC instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It is implemented by central... 50 KB (4,166 words) - 14:53, 11 March 2024 |
The PDP-11/73 (strictly speaking, the MicroPDP-11/73) was the third generation of the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers produced by Digital Equipment... 1 KB (126 words) - 16:15, 15 May 2023 |
minicomputers PDP-1, 1959 PDP-4, 1962 PDP-5, 1963 PDP-6, 1963 PDP-7, 1964 PDP-8, 1965 PDP-9, 1966 PDP-10, mainframe computer 1966-1983 PDP-11, 16-bit minicomputers... 3 KB (390 words) - 11:27, 21 April 2024 |
Digital Equipment Corporation (section PDP-11 (1970)) The company produced a series of machines known as the PDP line, with the PDP-8 and PDP-11 being among the most successful minis in history. Their success... 101 KB (12,406 words) - 18:38, 4 May 2024 |
Programmed Data Processor (redirect from PDP-3) Programmed Data Processor (PDP), referred to by some customers, media and authors as "Programmable Data Processor," is a term used by the Digital Equipment... 19 KB (2,367 words) - 10:47, 7 January 2024 |
Mentec (redirect from Mentec PDP-11) Computer Systems Limited was a subsidiary of Mentec Limited that repackaged PDP-11 processors. Mentec Inc. was a US-based subsidiary of Mentec Limited. In... 10 KB (1,173 words) - 20:58, 14 April 2024 |
the PDP-15 has compilers for Fortran and ALGOL. The 18-bit PDP systems preceding the PDP-15 were named PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7 and PDP-9. The last PDP-15 was... 12 KB (1,316 words) - 23:39, 9 April 2024 |
Symposium on Operating Systems Principles where Unix was first presented. A PDP-11/45 was bought to run the system, but for budgetary reasons, this machine... 29 KB (3,523 words) - 22:06, 31 March 2024 |
Orthogonal instruction set (section The PDP-11) Approach. p. 151. ISBN 9780080502526. "Introduction to the PDP-11". University of Sydney. "PDP-11 instruction reference" (PDF). University of Toronto. "Another... 21 KB (3,008 words) - 12:03, 8 November 2023 |
Asymmetric multiprocessing (section PDP-11/74) Equipment Corporation developed, but never released, a multiprocessor PDP-11, the PDP-11/74, running a multiprocessor version of RSX-11M. In that system, either... 11 KB (1,296 words) - 23:13, 13 September 2023 |
and integer values in the optional floating-point processor of the PDP-11/45, PDP-11/70, and in some later processors, stored 32-bit "double precision... 41 KB (4,913 words) - 06:49, 8 May 2024 |
address. As machines with ASCII processing became common, notably the DEC PDP-11 that arrived at Bell Labs, support for character data stuffed in memory... 13 KB (1,393 words) - 15:11, 21 March 2024 |
RSX-11 is a discontinued family of multi-user real-time operating systems for PDP-11 computers created by Digital Equipment Corporation. In widespread... 30 KB (3,303 words) - 13:17, 19 January 2024 |
RT-11 (Real-time 11) is a discontinued small, low-end, single-user real-time operating system for the full line of Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 16-bit... 23 KB (2,925 words) - 17:04, 14 October 2023 |
the directory of a reserved system account. While this was suitable for PDP-11 systems, which possessed limited permanent storage capacity, VAX systems... 30 KB (4,396 words) - 20:48, 8 October 2023 |
PL-11 is a high-level machine-oriented programming language for the PDP-11, developed by R.D. Russell of CERN in 1971. Written in Fortran IV, it is similar... 1 KB (139 words) - 18:54, 7 July 2023 |
mode PDP-11 code (thus the -11 in VAX-11), offering an upward compatible path for existing customers. The first machine in the series, the VAX-11/780,... 18 KB (1,675 words) - 12:26, 3 March 2024 |
The J-11 is a microprocessor chip set that implements the PDP-11 instruction set architecture (ISA) jointly developed by Digital Equipment Corporation... 3 KB (303 words) - 20:39, 4 July 2022 |
1980s. V7 was originally developed for Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-11 minicomputers and was later ported to other platforms. Unix versions from... 13 KB (1,165 words) - 12:46, 21 January 2024 |
Eventually, they decided to port the operating system to a PDP-11. The original PDP-11 version of Unix was also developed in assembly language. Thompson... 100 KB (10,940 words) - 18:48, 9 May 2024 |
version of the PDP-11 assembly language without macro facilities. MACRO-11 was supported on all DEC PDP-11 operating systems. PDP-11 Unix systems also... 4 KB (324 words) - 01:02, 29 October 2023 |
36-bit machine word (PDP-6, PDP-10/DECsystem-10, DECSYSTEM-20), three characters plus two additional bits into one 18-bit word (PDP-9, PDP-15), or three characters... 15 KB (1,147 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2024 |
processors. Several models of the PDP-11, such as the PDP-11/45, PDP-11/34a,: 184–185 PDP-11/44,: 195, 211 and PDP-11/70,: 277, 286–287 supported an... 15 KB (1,556 words) - 19:07, 3 May 2024 |
this space. By the early 1970s, most minis were 16-bit, including DEC's PDP-11. For a time, "minicomputer" was almost synonymous with "16-bit", as the... 22 KB (2,687 words) - 21:48, 7 May 2024 |