SM-4
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The SM-4 was a Polish
Poland
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 PDP-11
PDP-11
The PDP-11 was a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation from 1970 into the 1990s, one of a succession of products in the PDP series. The PDP-11 replaced the PDP-8 in many real-time applications, although both product lines lived in parallel for more than 10 years...

/40 computer
Computer
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 clone, in the second half of 1980s. It was very popular in science and technology.

The standard configuration included 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
Videoton (company)
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 VDT-340 terminals (VT52
VT52
The VT52 was a CRT-based computer terminal produced by Digital Equipment Corporation introduced in September, 1975 . It provided a screen of 24 rows and 80 columns of text and supported all 95 ASCII characters as well as 32 graphics characters. It supported asynchronous communication at baud rates...

 non-compatible).

The SM-series also included the SM-3, without floating point
Floating point
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 processing, similar to DEC's PDP 11/40 and 11/34 models. In early production, ferrite core memory was used.

Operating systems commonly used, included:
  • RT-11
    RT-11
    RT-11 was a small, single-user real-time operating system for the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 family of 16-bit computers...

     (Rafos after partial translation)
  • RSTS/E
    RSTS/E
    RSTS is a multi-user time-sharing operating system, developed by Digital Equipment Corporation , for the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers. The first version of RSTS was implemented in 1970 by DEC software engineers that developed the TSS-8 time-sharing operating system for the PDP-8...

  • RSX-11
    RSX-11
    RSX-11 is a family of real-time operating systems mainly for PDP-11 computers created by Digital Equipment Corporation , common in the late 1970s and early 1980s. RSX-11D first appeared on the PDP-11/40 in 1972...

  • DSM-11 (DIAMS after partial translations)
  • DEMOS
    DEMOS
    DEMOS was a Unix-like operating system developed in the Soviet Union...

     and MNOS
    MNOS
    MNOS was a Unix-like operating system developed in the Soviet Union. It was derived from Unix Version 6 and consequently heavily modified to incorporate many features of BSD Unix...



Similar models included the SM-1420
SM-1420
The SM-1420 was a PDP-11/34+ clone, and the successor to SM-4 in Soviet Bloc countries. It was produced in the Soviet Union and Bulgaria....

, with semiconductor memory, and the SM-1600, a hybrid of the SM-1420 and the M-6000(?), a system produced in Minsk
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. The main producer was a Kiev
Kiev
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-based factory in Ukraine
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