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[[File:wums_5198.jpg|frame|Yep, it was ''that'' big.]]

 

This machine is also notable for popularizing the PDP-11 platform as a whole in the Soviet Union. While it was one of the first PDP-11 compatible rigs in the country, it was enormously popular and spawned dozens of different machines of all sizes and performances, from large industrial installation to tiny home computer-sized [[BK-0010|videogame platforms]], but all generally DEC-compatible. In short, the influence of this computer and its proponents in Ministry of Electronics industry basically led to Soviet computer industry standardizing around DEC products -- first PDP-11 and later VAX, their influence still felt long after PC won over.

 

* [[CPU]]: Several different CPUs were used during the system's long production run, all binary compatible with Digital's LSI-11 line, with most being the reverse engineered clones of original ones.

* [[RAM]]: 8K of core at release, expandable to 64K (w/o MMU) or to 4M max. Most later machines had standard DRAM instead of core.

* Storage: 2 x 8" floppy disk, though it might take any PDP-11 compatible peripherals, which were, in fact, produced in the [[Soviet Union]] as well.

 

* ''[[Tetris]]'': It was developed here!

* ''[[Colossal Cave]]'': As a direct descendant of PDP family of [[Mainframes and Minicomputers|minicomputers]].