translate English to German: Today the PDP-8 is generally regarded as the first minicomputer . The PDP-8 spawned a cousin, the PDP-12 , which merged data acquisition and display capabilities developed with the NIH-sponsored LINC computers into the PDP-8 architecture.
IBM baute Computer und DEC PDPs - man wollte die Aufmerksamkeit von IBM nicht unnötig wecken.