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What is not well-known is that:

a) the PDP-11 CPU was also implemented in TTL logic, like the Datapoint,

b) there were later implementations of the PDP-11 as NMOS microprocessors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_T-11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11#LSI-11_integrated_circu...

c) the VT100 terminal was based on the Intel 8080 microprocessor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100

There was appreciation and exchange between Intel and DEC.

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