A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time | Ars Technica
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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, Steven Levy's great book, there are dozens of stories around the PDP-11.
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