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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>PDP-11</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="PDP-10.html" title="PDP-10"/><link rel="next" href="PDP-20.html" title="PDP-20"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">PDP-11</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="PDP-10.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="PDP-20.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="PDP-11"/><dt xmlns="" id="PDP-11"><b>PDP-11</b></dt></dt><dd><p>Possibly the single most successful minicomputer design in history, a
favorite of hackers for many years, and the first major Unix machine, The
first PDP-11s (the 11/15 and 11/20) shipped in 1970 from
<a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a>; the last (11/93 and 11/94) in 1990. Along the
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influenced the design of microprocessors such as the Motorola 6800 and
Intel 386, and left a permanent imprint on the C language (which has an odd
preference for octal embedded in its syntax because of the way PDP-11
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