A brief tour of the PDP-11

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A brief tour of the PDP-11

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A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time, an interesting article at ArsTechnica.

Of historical interest as this was the original HW on which Unix was developed at AT&T.
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Link adjusted as it linked to the comments, not the article.

Thanks for sharing :)
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My first computer programming was done in 1973 on a PDP-8e in high school. DEC Basic, 8k core memory shared between four asr33 teletypes w/ paper tape reader/punchers for storage. It was really the first affordable computer for a school to own rather lease timeshares over a modem on.
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I have done a bit of Fortran and Pascal programming at the university in the 80's on DEC equipment, but it was alreadyVAX/VMS, not PDP/UNIX.
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I worked at Digital Equipment Corp. in Maynard MA in 1968 just before I enlisted in the Army. Actually met Mr. Olsen once.
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