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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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