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  • ...ge architecture, the [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] was shrunk to three [[DEC card form factor|hex]] boards. The machine seems to have been most popular ==Hardware Details==
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  • ...ion of the earlier [[PDP-6]] [[instruction set architecture|ISA]], whose [[hardware]] engineering had been a failure. (The machines were so similar at the prog DEC sold 4 different generations of PDP-10 processors: the [[KA10]], the [[KI10
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  • The [[PDP-8 family|PDP-8]] is a 12-bit [[architecture]] from [[DEC]]; the first commercially successful [[minicomputer]]. It was a [[load-stor ...words (32K words / 48 KB), which were controlled by optional additional [[hardware]].
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  • [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] noted that having two buses seemed wasteful and expensive for small, mass ...h of the work on these systems concerns software design, as opposed to the hardware itself. In general, these third generation buses tend to look more like a [
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  • Date: 19 Dec 91 23:35:45 GMT ISA+AT-disk is currently the hardware setup)
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  • <div id="ref_1">[1] VAX Hardware Handbook Volume 1 - 1986. </div> * [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/785/ 785] - documentation on [[BitSavers]]
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  • ...to build computers, and [[peripheral]]s for them. They were a successor to DEC's earlier [[System Module]]s. They were introduced as a replacement largely ...(the so-called 'solder' side); the contact pads were 'numbered' from the [[DEC Alphabet]]. A FLIP CHIP plugged directly into a 144-pin connector block [[b
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  • | manufacturer = [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] ...e first model of the [[PDP-8 family]], was [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]'s major breakthrough, and now considered the first really successful [[mi
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  • ..., with a few dual-height. It was the first [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] computer to be built using ICs. * KE8/I [[Extended Arithmetic Element]], which supported [[hardware]] integer multiplication and division, one-[[bit]] double-word shifts, and
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  • ...s a high-performance [[VAX]], described by [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] as a '[[mainframe]] computer'. They were built around a System Control Un ==Hardware==
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  • |Dec 1988 |Dec 1991
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  • ...00 and 3600 used the BA213 enclosure. (The [http://vtda.org/docs/computing/DEC/VMS/EK-O33AB-OM-002_MicroVAX_3600_VAXserver_3600_3602_Operation_Jul1988.pdf <div id="ref_3">[3] VAX Systems Hardware Handbook -- VAXBI Systems. EB-31692-46</div>
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  • a somewhat paranoid DEC engineer who prefers to remain anonymous. ...2A, 1-Oct-94; contains all the rooms and puzzles of the original MIT Zork. DEC FORTRAN source code by Robert M. Supnik; see dungn32b.zip for a port to DOS
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  • ...P-11/20]]'s built; there was no [[disk]] [[mass storage]] available from [[DEC]] for the machine when it first arrived. ...and the researchers sharing a machine (dangerous, since the -11/20 had no hardware [[memory management]]) that a second -11/20 was purchased for the sole use
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  • ...ently ES 40 can run [[OpenVMS]] for the Dec [[Alpha]]. Hopefully once the hardware is more fleshed out it will run the following:
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  • In the beginning, back in the 1960's, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) created the PDP-10, a medium-sized computer ...ed most of its features in designing Zork. The guy who did it was mostly a hardware person, so perhaps he didn't know what he was up against. At any rate, shor
    38 KB (6,681 words) - 16:32, 19 December 2018
  • ...nal state of the machine, were provided by [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] for their earlier computers (such as the [[KA10]]), in common with the ot ...) This was a significant loss; in addition to helping with debugging (both hardware and software issues), they gave an extensive insight into how the machine w
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  • : ''XENIX was originally developed on a DEC Virtual Address Extension (VAX) running the Virtual Memory System (VMS) and ...r to the 16-bit microprocessors. Currently scheduled machines included the DEC LSI-11/23, Zilogs Z8001 and Z8002, Intel's 8086 and 286, and Motorola's MC6
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  • ...s such as Quad-Density and 3 and a half inches floppy disks. OEMs included DEC Rainbow, Tandy, AT&T, and Wang. ...and had to be augmented with modifications as/if needed for the particular hardware and with vendor-written versions of utilities found in PC-DOS. Documentatio
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  • only OS standard they could use that to leverage their hardware and IBM, DEC, et. al.
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