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![]() An incomplete PDP-15 | |
Developer | Digital Equipment Corporation |
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Product family | Programmed Data Processor |
Type | Minicomputer |
Release date | February 1970 |
Lifespan | 1979 |
Units sold | 790[1] |
Operating system | DECsys, RSX-15, XVM/RSX, MUMPS, DOS-15[2] |
Platform | DEC 18-bit |
Predecessor | PDP-9 |
The PDP-15 was the fifth and last of the 18-bit minicomputers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. The PDP-1 was first delivered in December 1959[3]: P.4 and the first PDP-15 was delivered in February 1970.[4] More than 400 of these successors to the PDP-9 (and 9/L) were ordered within the first eight months.[3]: p.16
In addition to operating systems, the PDP-15 has compilers for Fortran[5] and ALGOL.[6]
by 1977, 790 machines had been shipped - more than the total of all other DEC 18-bit machines.