| 41. | Around 1970, Digital Equipment Corporation donated two small rackmount PDP-11 minicomputers.
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| 42. | It was the first database management system included with a business-class minicomputer.
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| 43. | HP repositioned the HP-150 as a workstation for the HP 3000 minicomputer.
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| 44. | Programming of this minicomputer was via assembler language.
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| 45. | Instead, the minicomputer created a long sequence of short-stroke display instructions.
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| 46. | The HP3000 minicomputer is still in use today.
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| 47. | Basic / Four sold small business minicomputers that were assembled from Microdata Corporation CPUs.
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| 48. | In addition, minicomputers were relatively interactive and soon had their own operating systems.
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| 49. | The control store on some minicomputers was one or more programmable logic array chips.
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| 50. | In the 1980s, its Vax minicomputers were as hot as Intel chips are today.
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