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  2. PDP-5 - Wikipedia

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    "A PDP-5 computer was used very successfully aboard Evergreen [NB 1] for ..." [7] all of which described the same PDP-5 used by the United States Coast Guard. The architecture of the PDP-5 was specified by Alan Kotok and Gordon Bell; the principal logic designer was the young engineer Edson de Castro [8] [9] who went on later to found Data General.

  3. 2018 in technology and computing - Wikipedia

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    Significant events that have occurred in 2018 in all fields of technology, including computing, robotics, electronics, as well as any other areas of technology as well, including any machines, devices, or other technological developments, occurrences, and items.

  4. Portable computer - Wikipedia

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    IBM 5100 (1975) Successful demonstrations of the 1973 SCAMP prototype led to the first commercial IBM 5100 portable microcomputer launched in 1975. The product incorporated an IBM PALM processor, 5-inch (130 mm) CRT, full function keyboard and the ability to be programmed in both APL and BASIC for engineers, analysts, statisticians and other business problem-solvers.

  5. Programmed Data Processor - Wikipedia

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    PDP-1 PDP-6 PDP-7 PDP-8/e PDP-11/40 PDP-12 PDP-15 (partial) PDP-15 graphics terminal with light pen and digitizing tablet. Programmed Data Processor (PDP), referred to by some customers, media and authors as "Programmable Data Processor," [1] [2] [3] is a term used by the Digital Equipment Corporation from 1957 to 1990 for several lines of minicomputers.

  6. History of computing hardware (1960s–present) - Wikipedia

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    Transfer and Set indeX (TSX) on the IBM 7090 Jump and Save PC (JSP) on the DEC PDP-6 and PDP-10 Transfer and Set Xn (TSXn) on the GE-600 series Branch and Link (BAL) on the IBM System/360 Call instructions that use an index register as a stack pointer and push return information onto the stack Push jump (PUSHJ) on the DEC PDP-6

  7. PDP-1 - Wikipedia

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    The PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) is the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series and was first produced in 1959. It is known for being the most important computer in the creation of hacker culture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Bolt, Beranek and Newman , and elsewhere. [ 2 ]

  8. LINC - Wikipedia

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    The LINC instruction set was designed for ease of use with scientific instruments or custom experimental apparatus. [ 9 ] Miscellaneous class, no address - Halt, clear accumulator, enable tape mark write gate, transfer accumulator to relay register, read relay register to accumulator, no operation, complement accumulator

  9. No instruction set computing - Wikipedia

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    No instruction set computing (NISC) is a computing architecture and compiler technology for designing highly efficient custom processors and hardware accelerators by allowing a compiler to have low-level control of hardware resources.