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  • ...the relatively formalized tone and style imposed by Wikipedia; we also don't require the detailed sourcing that Wikipedia does. Sentences starting with ...t. The system will send you an email with a temporary password; if you don't see it, and I have sent you an acknowledgement, check your spam-traps: we'v
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  • ...DNA were in the early 1970s. DIGITAL published its first DNA specification at about the same time that [[IBM]] announced its [[Systems Network Architectu ...e, and gateways to other types of networks including IBM’s SNA and [[ITU-T|CCITT]] Recommendation [[X.25]].
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  • | [[PDP-11/83|11/83]] || 1988 || QBUS || 22-bit || yes || J-11 at 18MHz, integrated FPU || 0.72 | [[PDP-11/84|11/84]] || 1988 || UNIBUS || 22-bit || yes || J-11 at 18MHz, integrated FPU || 0.72
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  • Note that the slots are numbered from 1 at the start; this is the inverse of the numbering for these backplanes in som Note that the two KM11 slots are at the other side of the backplane from the slots used for them in the 'Config
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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 Mic The J-11 was manufactured by Harris Semiconductors, and it hasn't been fully completed, it lacked the WCS and CIS options.
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  • ...m driven by servo data written on the pack (along with [[sector]] headers) at the factory. Packs ''cannnot'' be low-level re-formatted in the field, and The RL0x uses a cable with latching connectors at each end to go between drives; the part number of the original cable is 70-
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  • ...] than that, although only a limited subset was visible to the [[program]] at any time. ...e models provide two sets of general CPU registers (only one may be in use at any time); in those machines, a bit in the PSW selects which one is in use.
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  • The 11/780 didn't have just [[firmware]]; instead, like the [[KL10]], it loaded [[microcode]] It was announced on October 25<sup>th</sup>, 1977 at [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]'s Annual Meeting of Shareholders.[[#r
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  • ...ntegrated circuit|chips]] holding 400 NAND [[gate]]s; they were configured at manufacture time into the 39 different types used in the /750. ...''particular'' board, which ''has'' to go in that slot - and that slot can't hold ''anything'' else.
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  • | creator = Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy at Bell Labs ...ng system]] originally developed in the 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including [[Ken Thompson]], [[Dennis Ritchie]] and [[Douglas McIl
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  • ...dle and Bill Mensch for [[MOS Technology]] in 1975. When it was introduced at around $25 it was the least expensive full-featured [[Central Processing Un ...models). WDC continued to design other variants of the 65C02 and are still at it as of 2016. There were other manufacturers as well, including but not li
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  • * Norsk Data takes over a 16700 m2 industrial building at Skullerud, Oslo. The building is leased to Tandberg. * Tore realizes he STILL hasn't finished this page, and promises to do that any moment now.
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  • ...g SIMH]] on how to do so, that may be adapted to a real MicroVAX but I don't have one to test with. * [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/630/ VAX 630] - documentation at [[Bitsavers]]
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  • printf("Bad configuration at line %d\n%s\n", line,buf); + printf("%d: IP bridge %s don't exist.\n", line, buf);
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  • ...a typical two-cycle ([[Fetch]], Execute) memory-reference instruction ran at a speed of 0.333 MIPS. ...data break]]", the buffer address and word count were kept in main memory (at an [[address]] usually specified by [[jumper]]s on the device). This requir
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  • ...ause it was a 'fresh' implementation of [[UNIX]], not incumbered by the AT&T vs BSDI/CSRG legal wars, and was not sidelined because of it. While the BS *0.95 Linux had made rapid progress at this point, and was optimistically approaching the 1.0 milestone.
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  • ...computer at the scale of [[EDSAC]] was out of reach financially for Norway at the time, but the APEXC(N) was affordable. ...ection of Dr. T. Hysing, is undergoing tests. The second is in general use at the laboratories of the British Tabulating Machines Company."
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  • | creator = Gary Kildall at Digital Research, Inc. ...however it doesn't use directories (and the first version of (PC-)DOS didn't either). CP/M was a portable operating system that was popularized because
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  • ...ocatable, due to the use of the base register. The OS could load a program at any place in [[main memory]], and then set the base register to the beginni ..., so that the program could be fooled into seeing itself as always running at location zero. Thus, the program could be moved around in memory as needed,
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  • ...omething, you'll probably want to enter [[Integer BASIC]]. You're looking at this: At this point, you might want to learn more about [[Integer BASIC]], [[6502]]
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