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There are a few remaining PDP-7 still in operable condition, along with one under restoration in Oslo, Norway.
 
There are a few remaining PDP-7 still in operable condition, along with one under restoration in Oslo, Norway.
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== Emulation ==
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The PDP-7 can be emulated with [[SIMH]].  DECSys and some other software is available and can run on the emulator.
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==

Revision as of 15:14, 3 January 2008


PDP-7
Pdp7-oslo-2005.jpeg
A PDP-7 in Oslo, Norway
Manufacturer: Digital Equipment Corporation
Year Introduced: 1965
Word Size: 18


The DEC PDP-7 is a minicomputer produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. Introduced in 1965, the first to use their Flip-Chip® technology, with a cost of only $72,000 USD, it was cheap but powerful. The PDP-7 was the third of Digital's 18-bit machines, with essentially the same instruction set architecture as the PDP-4 and the PDP-9. It was the first wire-wrapped PDP.

In 1969, Ken Thompson wrote the first UNIX system in assembly language on a PDP-7, then named Unics as a somewhat treacherous pun on Multics, as the operating system for Space Travel, a game which required graphics to depict the motion of the planets. A PDP-7 was also the development system used during the development of MUMPS at MGH in Boston a few years earlier.

There are a few remaining PDP-7 still in operable condition, along with one under restoration in Oslo, Norway.

Emulation

The PDP-7 can be emulated with SIMH. DECSys and some other software is available and can run on the emulator.

External links