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6 unusual facts about PDP-10


Block-transfer instruction

On the PDP-10 mainframe computer, the BLT (Block Transfer) in assembly language programming, is the instruction which copies words from memory to memory.

DECsystem

The DECsystem (or DECSYSTEM) name was also used for later models of the PDP-10 mainframe, namely the DECsystem-10 and DECSYSTEM-20 series.

Hans Berliner

The result was BKG 9.8, written in the late 1970s on a DEC PDP-10.

Jupiter project

The Jupiter project was to be a successor to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s PDP-10 mainframe computer model.

Mac Hack

Mac Hack played by teletype, was ported to the PDP-10 and was the first computer chess program to be widely distributed.

Simtel

The software was hosted on a PDP-10 at MIT that also ran a CP/M mailing list Mr. Petersen subscribed to.


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PDP-11 | PDP-10 | PDP-1 | PDP-8 | PDP-6 |

Adamu Gumba

In the PDP primaries for the April 2011 election for the Bauchi South Senatorial seat, Gumba gained the nomination as the expense of former Senator Abubakar Maikafi and one-time Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) National Commissioner, Mohammed Abubakar.

Aisha Jummai

She was one of four women elected on the PDP ticket, the others being Nkechi Nwaogu (Abia Central), Helen Esuene (Akwa Ibom South) and Nenadi Usman (Kaduna South).

Ampersand

BASIC-PLUS on the DEC PDP-11 uses the ampersand as a short form of the verb PRINT.

Ancient UNIX

So far there has been no widespread use of the code, but it can be used on emulator systems, and Version 5 Unix has been made to run on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance using the SIMH PDP-11 emulator.

Apple Worm

The instruction set of the PDP-11 computer includes an instruction for moving data, which when constructed in a particular form causes itself to be moved from higher addresses to lower addresses; the form includes an automatic decrement of the instruction pointer register.

Berkeley Timesharing System

The TENEX operating system for the PDP-10 mainframe computer, used many features of this system, but extended the memory management to include demand paging.

Biodun Ogunbiyi

Jeremiah Useni rejected the decision, and claimed that Ogunbiyi had been expelled from the party in August 2008, after openly declaring for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at a rally in Sokoto.

Boluwaji Kunlere

The PDP challenged the election, claiming that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials had shown bias to the Labour Party.

CMX 600

The first rack contained the interface electronics for the system, monitoring equipment, and a Digital PDP-11 minicomputer with 32 kilobytes of RAM, which controlled the system.

DECmate

As part of a three-pronged strategy against IBM, the company released this model at the same time as the PDP-11-based PRO-380 and the Intel 8088-based Rainbow 100.

Dimeji Bankole

In 2002, Bankole was elected to the House of Representatives on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) ticket to represent the Abeokuta South Federal Constituency of Ogun State.

Drum memory

As late as 1980, PDP-11/45 machines that used drums for swapping (and magnetic core memory) were still in use at many of the original UNIX sites.

Endianness

Other well-known little-endian processor architectures are the 6502 (including 65802, 65C816), Z80 (including Z180, eZ80 etc.), MCS-48, 8051, DEC Alpha, Altera Nios II, Atmel AVR, VAX, and, largely, PDP-11.

Harmony Compiler

The compiler was designed to encode music for the PDP-1 and built on an earlier program Samson wrote for the TX-0 computer.

Hope Uzodinma

The judge ordered the PDP to submit Izunaso's name to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the candidate who had received the most votes among those qualified to run.

HP BASIC

HP BASIC for OpenVMS - Created at DEC, now transferred to HP; PDP, VAX, and VMS platforms

I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus

Clem is one of the first "computer hackers" mentioned in pop culture, and his dialog with the fair's computer includes messages found in the DEC PDP-10, a popular mainframe computer at the time.

IBM Series/1

The IBM Series/1 computer is a 16-bit minicomputer, introduced in 1976, that in many respects competed with other minicomputers of the time, such as the PDP-11 from Digital Equipment Corporation and similar offerings from Data General and HP.

International Partnership for Microbicides

The International Partnership for Microbicides or IPM is a non-profit product development partnership (PDP) founded by Dr. Zeda Rosenberg in 2002 to prevent HIV transmission by accelerating the development and availability of a safe and effective microbicide for use by women in developing countries.

Itu, Nigeria

Politics in Itu is dominated by the people from the central part of Ibiaku Itam, with the highly endorsed political party being PDP (Peoples Democratic Party)

JOVE

It was originally created in 1983 by Jonathan Payne while at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts, USA on a PDP-11 minicomputer.

Jupiter project

This project was cancelled in 1983, as the PDP-10 was increasingly eclipsed by the VAX supermini machines (descendants of the PDP-11).

Mac Hack

Mac Hack was written in MIDAS macro assembly language on the PDP-6 computer DEC donated to MIT (the first working PDP-6, serial number 2).

Mark Crispin

He developed the first production PDP-10 32-bit address ARPAnet NCP for the WAITS operating system, and wrote or rewrote most of the WAITS ARPAnet protocol suite.

MCP-1600

Used in the Pascal MicroEngine, the original Alpha Microsystems AM-100, and the DEC LSI-11 microcomputer, a cost-reduced and compact implementation of the DEC PDP-11.

Measurex

Starting with the MX2002 systems in 1980, Measurex started to use the DEC LSI 11.

Moses Adasu

As a member of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) party he challenged the incumbent Governor George Akume of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the April 2003 gubernatorial elections.

PDP-8

The chief engineer who designed the initial version of the PDP-8 was Edson de Castro, who later founded Data General.

Prince Eze Madumere

During the 1998 gubernatorial elections in Nigeria, Madumere went back to Nigeria and served as Director for Women and Youth Mobilization for Owelle Rochas Okorocha's campaign in Imo State under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

SA10

One of Systems Concepts' major products, the SA-10, was an interface which allowed PDP-10s to be connected to disk and tape drives designed for use with the channel interfaces of IBM mainframes.

Sahabi Alhaji Yaú

After the state governor Alhaji Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi transferred his allegiance from the ANPP to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sahabi Ya'u made it clear that he retained loyalty to Shinkafi, although he still remains technically a member of the ANPP.

Terak

Terak 8510/a - a 1970s personal computer compatible with PDP-11

Texas Instruments TMS9900

The TMS9900 was designed as a single chip version of the TI 990 minicomputer series, much like the Intersil 6100 was a single chip PDP-8 (12 bit), and the Fairchild 9440 and Data General mN601 were both one-chip versions of Data General's Nova.

The National Museum of Computing

The museum also includes the world's oldest working digital computer (the Harwell Dekatron / WITCH), machines from the 1960s such as the Elliott 803 and 905, an ICL 2966 mainframe from the 1980s, a wide range of analogue computers, a hands-on retrocomputing gallery, and several restoration projects such as the PDP-8 and the PDP-11-based air traffic control system from London Terminal Control Centre at West Drayton near London.

The Ultimate Entrepreneur

One of his chief engineers, Edson de Castro, left after failing to get permission to design a 16-bit version of the 8-bit PDP-8 and founded Data General.

VAX 8000

The VAX 8600 I/O cabinet contained a PDP-11 computer serving as the console, a Unibus card cage and provisions for mounting disk drives.

The VAX 8600 was the last VAX to be 100% compatible with the VAX-11/780 and VAX-11/785, to have the PDP-11 compatibility mode, and to use the SBI also used by the VAX-11/78x.

Wesley A. Clark

Wesley Allison Clark (born 1927) is a computer scientist and one of the main participants, along with Charles Molnar, in the creation of the LINC laboratory computer, which was the first mini-computer and shares with a number of other computers (such as the PDP-1) the claim to be the inspiration for the personal computer.

Whitesmiths

The Whitesmiths compiler, first written for the PDP-11, was released in 1978 and compiled a version of C similar to that accepted by Version 6 Unix (Dennis Ritchie's original C compiler).

Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed

Runner-up Senator Ahmed Makarfi of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), the incumbent, polled 365,043 votes.


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