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  • ...nto one of the first peer-to-peer network architectures, thus transforming DEC into a networking powerhouse in the 1980s. ...cintosh]] computers and PCs running both DOS and Windows under the name '''DEC Pathworks''', transforming these systems into DECnet end-nodes in a network
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  • | creator = [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] ...em]]s for [[PDP-11]] computers, created by [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]; it was common in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was designed for and
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  • | creator = [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] ...ed]] [[operating system]] developed by [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] ("DEC") for the [[PDP-11]] series of 16-bit [[minicomputer]]s, and used primarily
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  • ...mputer]]s introduced in 1969 [1] by the [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] (DEC), in production by them from 1970-1990. Their life-time spanned a period of ...UNIBUS]] for a bus, and the later ones which used the [[QBUS]]. Eventually DEC stopped producing [[UNIBUS]] PDP-11's (the last were the [[PDP-11/44]] and
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  • ...eXtension') for a family of computers from [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]. They were the successors to the [[PDP-11]] series of [[minicomputer]]s. ==New Emulator Hardware==
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  • ...al Equipment Corporation|DEC]]; its [[KA11 CPU]] was built from a set of [[DEC card form factor|quad width extended-length]] cards carrying SSI [[transist ...rdware multiply and divide, [[floating point]], and [[memory management]]. DEC provided a series of optional accessories that provided some of these capab
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  • ...in its day, a rather unsuccessful model of [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]'s [[PDP-11]] line; although considerable more complex than the [[PDP-11/3 ==Hardware==
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  • The cabling used for the Main Memory Bus ([[DEC part number]] 70-10824) consists of a set of four BC06R-xx [[flat cable]]s; * [http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/1170/ 11/70] - documentation at [[Bitsavers]]
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  • '''Digital Equipment Corporation''', or '''DEC''', was a large computer company (at one time, the second-largest in the wo * [[Taxonomy of DEC consoles]]
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  • ...rs are done using [[Direct Memory Access|DMA]]. Data is protected with a [[hardware]]-generated and checked [[error-correcting code]] (ECC); corrections (up to The RK611 consists of a specially wired 9-slot [[backplane]] and five [[DEC card form factor|hex]] cards; these are:
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  • ...troduced in 1976 and 1978 respectively, by [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]. They used an [[IBM 5440]] type pack, as used on the [[IBM System/3]]. Up ...|RLV11]] and [[RLV12 disk controller|RLV12]]; the former consists of two [[DEC card form factor|quad]] cards, and needs a QBUS [[backplane]] with [[CD int
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  • ...f 16-[[bit]] [[minicomputer]]s designed by [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]], in production from 1970-1990. Although the basic [[address space]] was 1 ...Pointer]]. (Other registers can be used as [[stack]] [[pointer]]s, but the hardware uses this one for [[subroutine]] call and return, [[interrupt]]s, [[trap]]s
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  • ...he earlier [[RK02/03 disk drive|RK02]] and RK03 drives (which were sold by DEC, but not manufactured by them), which in turn were inspired by the IBM 2315 ...ive bus, on which the selected drive was encoded in [[binary]]. The RK05's hardware selects which kind of drive select encoding to use based on the RK11-C/RK11
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  • ==Hardware== The [[DEC card form factor|quad]] boards which made up the RK8E were the M7104, M7105
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  • ...ounced on October 25<sup>th</sup>, 1977 at [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]'s Annual Meeting of Shareholders.[[#ref_4|[4]]] The VAX-11/780 was given ...two DEC VAX-11/780's and made the first multi-CPU Unix computer, preceding DEC's dual processor [[VAX-11/782]]. The operating system was based on the 4.2
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  • The VAX-11/782 presented in the "VAX Hardware Handbook Volume 1 - 1986": ...avers.org/pdf/dec/vax/handbook/VAX_Hardware_Handbook_Volume_1_1986.pdf VAX Hardware Handbook Volume 1 - 1986] (VAX-11/782 on pdf pages 36ff)
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  • ...f 12-[[bit]] [[minicomputer]]s produced by [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]. | [[PDP-8/E]] || 1970 || 1978 || ??? || [[DEC card form factor|quad]] [[printed circuit board|PCBs]] || First [[OMNIBUS]
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  • ...0 CPU]]. It supported several pre-existing [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] [[input/output|I/O]] [[bus]]es ([[UNIBUS]] and [[MASSBUS]]), so there are ...AX-11/750 comes in an [[H9645]] cabinet and has one large [[backplane]] ([[DEC part number]] 50-13821/70-16486/54-13822), into which plug:
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  • | manufacturer = [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] ...el in the [[PDP-8 family|PDP-8 line]] from [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]], and introduced the [[OMNIBUS]] for interfacing to [[device controller]]s
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  • ...cause of all the scripts being rewritten in [[DCL]], and with that change, DEC has included more comprehensive and powerful install scripts. ...there are several methods of generating a RSTS/E system, depending on what hardware you have available.
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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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  • ...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
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  • ...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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  • ...[[RP06]] and the RP07. Although these disk types are very different at the hardware level, from the simulator's point of view they differ only in capacity and ...ITS IO and paging microcode, which differs significantly from the standard DEC microcode.
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  • ...hich were modified with MIT-designed and built [[virtual memory|paging]] [[hardware]] (which that generation of PDP-10 [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] did not ...ar if an intermediate version did); paging was added as soon as the custom hardware to support it was done. Pages from other processes could be mapped into a p
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  • --- qemu-0.8.0-distclean/Makefile.target Mon Dec 19 17:51:53 2005 # Hardware support
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  • *[[DEC Alpha]] (really incomplete) enable virtual hardware watchdog [default=none]
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  • qe0: DEC DELQA Ethernet Interface DEQNA-lock Mode, hardware address 08:00:2b:aa:bb:cc qe0: DEC DELQA Ethernet Interface DEQNA-lock Mode, hardware address 08:00:2b:aa:bb:cc
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  • | architecture = Originally [[MIPS]], then [[i386]], [[DEC Alpha]], [[PowerPC]], [[Itanium]], [[x64]] ...ware on the i386, but running instructions inside a v86 virtual machine (A hardware feature of the 386 and higher CPUs).
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  • Hardware Compatibility List Digital Equipment Corp. application DEC[R] 400xP
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  • == Emulated hardware == *dec 21140 nic
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  • ...rial line interface|RS-232]] based dumb [[video terminal]] introduced by [[DEC]] in 1978. It featured [[cursor]] keys, and the ability to place text where ...minicomputer]]..). Xon/Xoff was the most common method for flow control on DEC/VT100 systems. To handle the speed problem some people would put the VT100
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  • Hardware Compatibility List x86 Architecture Uniprocessor Computers Hardware Compatibility List.
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