Modular concepts have also been applied in disciplines that seem at first glance to be completely unconnected to the technically so- phisticated realms of computers, management, and biology. A quick consultat
Since the days of the PDP-1, hackerdom's fortunes had been woven together with Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series of minicomputers. DEC pioneered commercial interactive computing and time-sharing operating systems. Because their machines were flexible, powerful, and relatively cheap for the ...
If the DEC PDP-11 computer were to be manufactured today, it would cost around $140,000. The DEC PDP-11 computer was so successful it was cloned and copied by Eastern European Socialist Countries. The DEC PDP-11 computer is one of the world’s longest-serving computers as it is still ...
One assumption is that the potential buyer is interested in the PDP-II line of computers but may be intimidated by some of the DEC single-quantity prices. It is beyond the scope of this paper to compare different microprocessors, but the advantages of the LSI-II include the system software ...
A system is available for an 8K, or larger, Linc-8, PDP-8, or PDP-12 with RF/RS08 disk(s), to allow virtually simultaneous execution of any mix of PDP-8 and/or Line programs. The programs need little or no modification to run within "Time," and up to eight may be in the ...
Bell Labs in New Jersey and was given the use of a PDP- 7 minicomputer. He decided to create an operating system for the minicomputer for the convenience it provided even though there would be only one user. Initially he called this operating system UNICS in ...
Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie (standing) working on a DEC PDP-11 via teletype (notice no electronic display) Rise of the Terminals Teletype devices were replaced by computerized Terminals with electronic display devices (usually CRT screens). Terminals were generally very simple devices (hence...
DECPDP-1 running the SpaceWar game and the Minskytron demo - by Norbert Landsteiner PDP-8 and PDP-11 simulators with assembly language interfaces (explanatory articles with full source, not live site) - by programmer209 JavaScript PDP 11 - PDP-11/70 emulator with simulated front panel and a...
which were paired with non-adjacent tracks. It could have been written/read in any direction, and it was almost error-proof. The DECtape was used on Digital Equipment’s PDP-series of mainframes and minicomputers, and each tape could store 184K 12-bit PDP-8 words or 144K 18-bit ...
PIP, as with the line editor, can trace its origins back to the early days (around 1968) of minicomputers and the DEC PDP-8 series of machines. At that time the program was used to link files on disk to a paper tape device, either a reader or a punch. By using PIP it was then...