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DEC PDP-10
Manufacturer DEC - Digital Equipment Corporation Identification,ID PDP-10 (KA10) Date of first manufacture 1967 Number produced - Estimated price or cost - location in museum - donor - Contents of this page:
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DEC PDP-10,
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36 bit word - super set of earlier PDP-6 see Architecture and Timeline at PDP-6.
Keith wrote (February 2004)
DEC PDP-10: It's worth noting a number of interesting things about this system. For starters, the PDP-10 is also known as the DECsystem 10 and the DECsystem 20. (The difference between a DS10 and DS20? The color the system was painted, and two instructions in the boot ROM.) The PDP-10 was DEC's attempt to compete directly with IBM in the big-iron field. It virtually always ran a multiuser, timesharing OS, such as TOPS-10. Amusing note about TOPS-10, is that an old version of it had what I consider to be among the funniest error messages in existance: "MORE CORE AVAILABLE, BUT NONE FOR YOU."
Other notes about the PDP-10, are that it very frequently had other PDP systems acting as slave I/O processors. In particular, some multiline serial cards for the unit actually had a full, complete-cabinet PDP-11 to drive them. The PDP-9 was also frequently used for such purposes.
And by the way, as of two years ago, PDP-10 clones were still sold.
Historical Notes
see Architecture and Timeline at PDP-6. This Specimen
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