DEC developed the 16-bit PDP 11 as a response to the introduction of the Data General NOVA, which had a 16-bit word length ; DEC's previous PDP-8 had only 12 bit words.

In the 1980s, the UK's air traffic control radar processing was conducted on a PDP 11 / 34 system known as PRDS-Processed Radar Display System at RAF West Drayton.

The software for the Therac-25 medical linear particle accelerator also ran on a 32K PDP 11 / 23.

Ron bootstrapped Small-C on the SRI International PDP 11 / 45 Unix system with an account provided by John Bass for Small C development ( with management permission, provided the compiler sources were released as public domain ).

In May 1980, VMI introduced the first nationwide voice-mail service from its headquarters in Santa Clara, CA using a Digital Equipment PDP 11 with proprietary voice technology called the " Big Talker ". Business Week-Information Processing – August, 1981-page90F.

The SM-series also included the SM-3, without floating point processing, similar to DEC's PDP 11 / 40 and 11 / 34 models.

A total of 11 PDP contexts ( with any combination of primary and secondary ) can co-exist.

Lead developer Mike Muuss works on the M1_Abrams # Development | XM-1 tank in BRL ‑ CAD at a PDP ‑ 11 / 70 terminal, circa 1980.

Two deputies Modesto Fraile and Carlos Gila quit the party and in August they along with 11 other UCD deputies ( Oscar Alzaga, Mariano Alierta, Joaquín Galant, Julen Guimon, María Josefa Lafuente, José Luis Moreno, Francisco Olivencia, José Manuel Otero, José Pin Arboledas, José Luis Ruiz Navarro and Luis Vega ) formed the Democratic Popular Party ( PDP ).

The first computer at PDI was a DEC PDP 11 / 44 with 128 kilobytes of memory.

* LINC ( Laboratory Instrument Computer ), originally designed by MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, some built by DEC. Not in the PDP family, but important as progenitor of the PDP-12.

Variations of and successors to the basic TTL family, which has a typical gate propagation delay of 10ns and a power dissipation of 10 mW per gate, for a power – delay product ( PDP ) or switching energy of about 100 pJ, include:

As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread ( for a computer language ) and BASIC was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers like the DEC PDP series and the Data General Nova.

The DECtape was also widely used on other PDP models, since it was much easier to use than hand-loading multiple paper tapes.

In 1968, DEC was developing a PDP machine that would be based on 8-bit bytes instead of 6-bit characters.

Daoud's revolution was actually supported by the communist party in the city, the PDP.

In 1980, Romero Barcelo was reelected Governor by a controversial 0. 2 % margin, but lost control of the Senate and, a year later, the House of Representatives to the PDP.

In 2000 Sila María Calderón ( PDP ) was elected becoming the first female governor of Puerto Rico, also gaining control of the Senate, presided by Antonio Fas Alzamora and the House of Representatives, headed by Speaker Carlos Vizcarrondo.

In 2004 Aníbal Acevedo Vilá ( PDP ) was declared the winner by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico as governor, by about 3, 000 votes, but his party lost control of the Senate, which elected NPP Senator Kenneth McClintock as its president, and the House of Representatives, which chose the NPP's José Aponte as Speaker, and Puerto Rico's seat in Congress, due to the election of Luis Fortuño.

On the PDP side, Acevedo's rocky relationship with the NPP-controlled Legislature was compounded with Federal investigations and unsuccessful indictments of his past political fundraising by grand juries in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Programmed Data Processor ( PDP ) was a series of minicomputers made and marketed by the Digital Equipment Corporation from 1957 to 1990.

One customer of these early PDP machines was Atomic Energy of Canada.

The PDP-1 ( Programmed Data Processor-1 ) was the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series and was first produced in 1960.

It was the first widely sold computer in the DEC PDP series of computers ( the PDP-5 was not originally intended to be a general-purpose computer ).

The PDP-11 was a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) from 1970 into the 1990s, one of a succession of products in the PDP series.

Part of the reason for splitting Zork into three different games was that, unlike the PDP systems the original ran on, micros did not have enough memory and disk storage to handle the entirety of the original game.

It was the first wire-wrapped PDP.

The prevailing connectionist approach today was originally known as parallel distributed processing ( PDP ).

A lot of the research that led to the development of PDP was done in the 1970s, but PDP became popular in the 1980s with the release of the books Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition-Volume 1 ( foundations ) and Volume 2 ( Psychological and Biological Models ), by James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart and the PDP Research Group.

Hayek's work was rarely cited in the PDP literature until recently.

On 4 January 2009, Mehbooba Mufti, president of the People's Democratic Party announced the withdrawal of the PDP from the UPA given that the Congress had decided to support the Omar Abdullah-led National Conference Government in Jammu & Kashmir after the 2008 state elections.

* On LSI-11, RT-11, Megabytes of Memory and Modula-2 / VRS by Günter Dotzel, ModulaWare. com-An article on Modula-2 compiler / linker synergy to overcome the PDP / LSI-11 address space limitations, published in DEC Professional: the magazine for DEC users, Professional Press, Spring House, PA. U. S. A., January 1986.

Although the company was allowed to resume marketing its Medicare products in August 2011, on January 6, 2012, the company agreed to sell its Medicare stand-alone Prescription Drug Plan ( PDP ) business to CVS Caremark Corp. ( CVS ) for about $ 160 million in cash.

; PDP-1: The original PDP, an 18-bit machine used in early time-sharing operating system work, and prominent in early hacker culture.

An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) 1960 – 1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President of Engineering 1972-1983, overseeing the development of the VAX.

At the time there were a number of flat-screen technologies in early development, and the only one close to commercialization was the plasma display panel ( PDP ), which had numerous disadvantages – manufacturing cost and energy use among them.

Subsequently both the statehood faction and the commonwealth shared control on a 50-50 basis from 1984 to 1988 and lost control that year as a result of their defeat in an internal primary that year between PDP forces led by then Senate president Miguel Hernández Agosto and NPP forces led by former Gov.

Theodore Orji ( PPA ) defeated Onyema Ugochukwu ( PDP ) in the 2007 general elections to become Abia's next Governor. In 2011, Theodore Orji decamped from PPA to the PDP and was re-elected for another four year tenure.

Also known as DEC and using the trademark DIGITAL, its PDP and VAX products were the most successful ( in terms of sales ) minicomputers.

Their PDP series of machines became popular in the 1960s, especially the PDP-8, widely considered to be the first successful minicomputer.

* 1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party ( Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP ) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.

The support of the PDP helped to prevent a violent clash in his coup in 1973.

The PDP also elected Aníbal Acevedo Vilá as the islands ' non-voting delegate in Congress.

Aníbal Acevedo Vilá of the Popular Democratic Party ( PDP ) by more than 223, 000 votes.

The Commonwealth option, represented by the PDP, won with an overwhelming majority of 60. 4 % of the votes.

While the PDP Democratic faction controls the Democratic party chapter under the state chairmanship of former senator Roberto Prats, two of the five DNC members residing in Puerto Rico, Senate president Kenneth McClintock and Francisco Domenech are statehooders.

Then Senate President and Democratic National Committeeman Kenneth McClintock, former Sen. Roberto Prats, Puerto Rico's Democratic State Chair and former PDP gubernatorial candidate José Alfredo Hernández Mayoral were appointed co-chairs of Sen. Hillary Clinton's National Hispanic Leadership Council while Young Democrats of America Democratic National Committeeman Francisco Domenech co-chaired Clinton's young professionals organization.

The name ' PDP ' intentionally avoided the use of the term ' computer ' because, at the time of the first PDPs, computers had a reputation of being large, complicated, and expensive machines, and the venture capitalists behind Digital ( especially Georges Doriot ) would not support Digital's attempting to build a " computer "; the word " minicomputer " had not yet been coined.

The various PDP machines can generally be grouped into families based on word length.