The SM-4 (CM-4) is a

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

/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 ( VT52 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 floating point processing, similar to DEC's PDP 11/40 and 11/34 models. In early production,

ferrite core memory Magnetic-core memory was the predominant form of random-access computer memory for 20 years between about 1955 and 1975. Such memory is often just called core memory, or, informally, core. Core memory uses toroids (rings) of a hard magnetic ...

is used. It operates at 200,000 operations per second in register-to-register operation. Operating systems commonly used include: * RT-11 (Rafos after partial translation) * RSTS/E * RSX-11 * 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 The SM-1420 (CM-1420) is a 16 bit DEC PDP-11/45 minicomputer clone, and the successor to SM-4 in Soviet Bloc countries. Under the direction of Minpribor it was produced in the Soviet Union and Bulgaria from 1983 onwards, and is more than twice as f ...

, with semiconductor memory, and the SM-1600, a hybrid of the SM-1420 and the M-6000, a system produced in Minsk. The main producer of the SM-4 was Minpribor, at a facility in Kyiv, Ukraine, which began production in 1980.

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