PDP-11/45

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A PDP11-45


PDP-11/45
Manufacturer: DEC
Architecture: PDP-11
Year Introduced: June 1972
Form Factor: minicomputer
Word Size: 16 bit
Design Type: microcoded
Physical Address Size: 18 bit
Virtual Address Size: 16 bit
Bus Architecture: UNIBUS/FastBus


The PDP-11/45 was the early fast UNIBUS PDP-11 system, using the KB11-A CPU (early units, prior to 1976) or KB11-D CPU (later units), high-performance CPUs implemented in SSI Schottky TTL logic.

(The difference between the two was whether they worked with the FP11-B or FP11-C FPP.)

The PDP-11/50 and PDP-11/55 were systems which used the exact same processor, but were configured with high-speed MOS or bipolar memory, respectively, on a special bus which was part of the CPU's backplane.

Optionally, the machine could be configured with a KT11-C Memory Management Unit; the FP11 Floating-Point Processor was also optional.

The machine had an 18-bit UNIBUS, allowing it to address 256KiW of memory.

hampage.hu

Quoting: Introduced two years after the PDP-11/20, in June 1972. The KB11 was a faster, microcoded CPU built with SSI/MSI (Small/Medium Scale Integration) components. The machine had two different buses: one was a UNIBUS with 18-bit addressing, the other was a fast CPU-memory interconnect. It also introduced split I/D (Instruction/Data) spaces (UNIX used this; the DEC operating systems did not), an MMU (Memory Management Unit) option, an optional FPU (Floating Point Unit). The maximal ammount of memory was 128 Kwords.

The cycle time of the PDP-11/45 with bipolar memory (max. 8 KW!) was 300 ns, MOS memories (max. 32 KW) were 450 ns, and core was 980 ns - but without memory management! The MMU added 90 ns to the cycle time.

The PDP-11/50 was basically the same machine with different memory. The PDP-11/55 (KB11-D CPU) used the modified CPU of the PDP-11/70, where the cache was left out (instead the memory was the faster bipolar memory). It also had the kernel/supervisor/user operating modes seen on the PDP-11/70, but only had a 18-bit addressing range. It was the fastest of the "classic" PDP-11 CPU's when measured by the cycle times.

Documentation

Gallery

A PDP-11/55 setup Different view of the PDP-11/55 setup The frontpanel was even nicer than the /20's. A really wonderful picture of the frontpanel (thanks to Csaba Tóth!) A nice configuration The "mysterious" PDP-11/45 11/45 at the Technical University of Budapest: in the foreground you can see a Videoton VDT52100 (VT52-compatible) terminal.