# A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time | Ars Technica

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## What Jamie wrote

The PDP-11 has a huge role in the history of modern computing. So much came from this elegant machine.

> The first version of UNIX was written in PDP-11 assembler; it had 34 system calls, it was written in 4,200 lines of code, and it ran on 12KB of main memory.

In [Hackers](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hackers/9781449390259/), Steven Levy's great book, there are dozens of stories around the PDP-11.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT216: Weekly Thing #216 / NFT, DST, PDP](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/216/), Notable

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