Communications of the ACM
Minicomputer Systems: Organization, Programming and Applications (PDP-11)
Minicomputer Systems: Organization, Programming and Applications (PDP-11)
Computers in 1980s
Retrospective: what have we learned from the PDP-11—what we have learned from VAX and Alpha
25 years of the international symposia on Computer architecture (selected papers)
Architecture of the IBM system/370
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on computer architecture
Address size independence in a 16-bit minicomputer
ISCA '78 Proceedings of the 5th annual symposium on Computer architecture
The PDP-11: A case study of how not to design condition codes
ISCA '78 Proceedings of the 5th annual symposium on Computer architecture
Performance implications of multiple pointer sizes
TCON'95 Proceedings of the USENIX 1995 Technical Conference Proceedings
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Over the PDP-11'S six year life about 20,000 specimens have been built based on 10 species (models). Although range was a design goal, it was unquantified; the actual range has exceeded expectations (500:1 in memory size and system price). The range has stressed the basic mini(mal) computer architecture along all dimensions. The main PMS structure, i.e. the UNIBUS, has been adopted as a de facto standard of interconnection for many micro and minicomputer systems. The architectural experience gained in the design and use of the PDP-11 will be described in terms of its environment (initial goals and constraints, technology, and the organization that designs, builds and distributes the machine).