A new architecture for mini-computers
Gordon Bell, R. Cady, H. McFarland, Bruce Delagi, J. O'Laughlin, RONALD NOONAN, W. Wulf · 1970
The mini-computer has a wide variety of uses: communications controller; instrument controller; large-system pre-processor; real-time data acquisition systems...; desk calculator. Historically, Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-8 Family, with 6,000 installations has been the archetype of these minicomputers.