PDP-6, (Programmed Data Processor-6) DEC's first 36-bit [1] personal mainframe computer developed and manufactured from 1963, and shipped since 1964 [2], influential for the later PDP-10 with almost identical instruction sets. Addressing remained 18-bit, as in earlier DEC machines, allowing for a 256 Kiword main magnetic core memory, optionally with 16 words of fast memory constructed from discrete transistorflip-flops[3]. Output could be displayed on a DEC 340 display[4][5][6][7][8].
Already supporting Time-sharing, the operating system used was an early version of what later became TOPS-10, and several sites made custom versions of the system, available as source code. The PDP-6 with serial number 2 was donated to MIT's[9]Project MAC, where it was used to develop the ITS operating system. Richard Greenblatt et al. developed the Mac Hack VI chess program entirely in MIDAS, the PDP-6 macro assembler.
DEC's first 36-bit [1] personal mainframe computer developed and manufactured from 1963, and shipped since 1964 [2], influential for the later PDP-10 with almost identical instruction sets. Addressing remained 18-bit, as in earlier DEC machines, allowing for a 256 Kiword main magnetic core memory, optionally with 16 words of fast memory constructed from discrete transistor flip-flops [3]. Output could be displayed on a DEC 340 display [4] [5] [6] [7] [8].
Already supporting Time-sharing, the operating system used was an early version of what later became TOPS-10, and several sites made custom versions of the system, available as source code. The PDP-6 with serial number 2 was donated to MIT's [9] Project MAC, where it was used to develop the ITS operating system. Richard Greenblatt et al. developed the Mac Hack VI chess program entirely in MIDAS, the PDP-6 macro assembler.
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