The SM-4 (CM-4) is a

PDP-11 The PDP–11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers originally sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 into the late 1990s, one of a set of products in the Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series. In total, around 600,000 PDP-11s of a ...

/40 compatible system, manufactured in the

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in the 1980s. It was very popular in science and technology. They were manufactured in the Soviet Union, Bulgaria and Hungary, beginning in 1975. The standard configuration includes 128 or 256 KB core memory, tape puncher, two RK-05 removable 2.5 MB disks and two RK-05F fixed disks, two TU-10 drives and Videoton VDT-340 terminals (

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non-compatible). The SM-4 processor operates at 900,000 operations per second. The SM-series also includes the SM-3. The SM-3 lacks

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processing, similar to DEC's PDP 11/40 and 11/34 models. In early production, ferrite core memory is used. It operates at 200,000 operations per second in register-to-register operation. Operating systems commonly used include: *

RT-11 RT-11 (Real-time 11) is a discontinued small, low-end, single-user real-time operating system for the full line of Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 16-bit computers. RT-11 was first implemented in 1970. It was widely used for real-time compu ...

(Rafos after partial translation) *

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RSX-11 RSX-11 is a discontinued family of multi-user real-time operating systems for PDP-11 computers created by Digital Equipment Corporation. In widespread use through the late 1970s and early 1980s, RSX-11 was influential in the development of later ...

* DSM-11 (DIAMS after partial translations) *

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and MNOS The SM-4 was manufactured in seven configurations, numbers SM-1401 through SM-1407. Similar models include the SM-1420, with semiconductor memory, and the SM-1600, a hybrid of the SM-1420 and the M-6000, a system produced in

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. The main producer of the SM-4 was

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, at a facility in

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, which began production in 1980.

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Minicomputers Soviet computer systems PDP-11 {{mini-compu-stub

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