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    The PDP11 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...
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  • The PDP-11 architecture is a 16-bit CISC instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It is implemented by central...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s PDP-10, later marketed as the DECsystem-10, is a mainframe computer family manufactured beginning in 1966 and discontinued...
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    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...
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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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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Approach. p. 151. ISBN 9780080502526. "Introduction to the PDP-11". University of Sydney. "PDP-11 instruction reference" (PDF). University of Toronto. "Another...
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    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...
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    elected as a member of the PDP but switched to the LP during their term. This House member was elected as a member of the PDP but switched to the APGA during...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    RSX-11 is a discontinued family of multi-user real-time operating systems for PDP-11 computers created by Digital Equipment Corporation. In widespread...
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  • 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...
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    memory while still being compatible with unmodified user mode PDP-11 code. The name "VAX-11", used on early models, was chosen to highlight this capability...
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  • the directory of a reserved system account. While this was suitable for PDP-11 systems, which possessed limited permanent storage capacity, VAX systems...
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  • 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...
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    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,...
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    The J-11 is a microprocessor chip set that implements the PDP-11 instruction set architecture (ISA) jointly developed by Digital Equipment Corporation...
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    1980s. V7 was originally developed for Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-11 minicomputers and was later ported to other platforms. Unix versions from...
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    MRV11-D ROM memories, all usable as bootstrap ROMs. The PDP-11/34 (1976), PDP-11/60 (1977), PDP-11/24 (1979), and most later models include boot ROM modules...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    DEC's PDP-8/I and KI10 PDP-10 also switched from the individual transistors used by the PDP-8 and PDP-10 to SSI ICs, and their extremely popular PDP-11 line...
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