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The CPU board is the [[KDJ11-A]] (M8192).
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Confusingly, the CPU board is the [[KDJ11-B]] (M8190), the same as the [[PDP-11/83]] - no DEC '11/xx' system seems to use the earlier [[KDJ11-A]] (M8192).
  
 
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Introduced in 1984. Successor of the [[PDP-11/23]]. At that time the components were VLSI, and these PDP-11's were marketed as MicroPDP's (this has in fact begun with the [[PDP-11/23]]). The PDP-11/73 had a 15MHz [[J-11]]-based CPU with 22-bit memory management for the 4MB RAM max. Just to make life more complicated, 18 MHz [[PDP-11/83]] CPU boards can also be found in PDP-11/73 systems, as a PDP-11/83 CPU ([[M3190]]-A[DE]) with qbus memory (instead of the PMI (private memory interconnect) memory used in those systems) is called a PDP-/73...  
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Introduced in 1984. Successor of the [[PDP-11/23]]. At that time the components were VLSI, and these PDP-11's were marketed as MicroPDP's (this has in fact begun with the [[PDP-11/23]]). The PDP-11/73 had a 15MHz [[J-11]]-based CPU with 22-bit memory management for the 4MB RAM max. Just to make life more complicated, 18 MHz [[PDP-11/83]] CPU boards can also be found in PDP-11/73 systems, as a PDP-11/83 CPU ([[M8190]]-A[DE]) with QBUS memory (instead of the[[Private Memory Interconnect|PMI]] memory used in those systems) is called a PDP-/73...  
  
 
There was no UNIBUS equivalent.
 
There was no UNIBUS equivalent.

Revision as of 12:21, 7 September 2016

PDP-11/73

Confusingly, the CPU board is the KDJ11-B (M8190), the same as the PDP-11/83 - no DEC '11/xx' system seems to use the earlier KDJ11-A (M8192).

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PDP-11/73

Introduced in 1984. Successor of the PDP-11/23. At that time the components were VLSI, and these PDP-11's were marketed as MicroPDP's (this has in fact begun with the PDP-11/23). The PDP-11/73 had a 15MHz J-11-based CPU with 22-bit memory management for the 4MB RAM max. Just to make life more complicated, 18 MHz PDP-11/83 CPU boards can also be found in PDP-11/73 systems, as a PDP-11/83 CPU (M8190-A[DE]) with QBUS memory (instead of thePMI memory used in those systems) is called a PDP-/73...

There was no UNIBUS equivalent.

The J-11 was manufactured by Harris Semiconductors, and it hasn't been fully completed, it lacked the WCS and CIS options.

A very popular enclosure is displayed to the left: this was the BA23 standing tower configuration, that had place for a 8x4 backplane, an RX50 floppy or TK50 streaming tape drive and an RDxx harddisk. The BA23 could also be rack-mounted.