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PDP-11
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Possibly the single most successful minicomputer design in history, a
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favorite of hackers for many years, and the first major Unix machine, The
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first s (the 11/15 and 11/20) shipped in 1970 from DEC ; the last (11/93 and
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11/94) in 1990. Along the way, the 11 gave birth to the VAX , strongly
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influenced the design of microprocessors such as the Motorola 6800 and Intel
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386, and left a permanent imprint on the C language (which has an odd
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preference for octal embedded in its syntax because of the way machine
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instructions were formatted). There is a history site.
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