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SM EVM

class of Soviet and Comecon minicomputers produced in the 1970s and 1980s

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ945534 ↗
Source-derived summary

SM EVM (СМ ЭВМ, abbreviation of Система Малых ЭВМ—literally System of Mini Computers) are several types of Soviet and Comecon minicomputers produced from 1975 through the 1980s.

Most types of SM EVM are clones of DEC PDP-11 and VAX. SM-1 and SM-2 are clones of Hewlett-Packard minicomputers.

The common operating systems for the PDP-11 clones are translated versions of RSX-11 (ОС РВ) for the higher spec models and RT-11 (РАФОС, ФОДОС) for lower spec models.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “SM EVM” is class of Soviet and Comecon minicomputers produced in the 1970s and 1980s. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through class, Soviet and Comecon, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970. For this dossier, class, Soviet and Comecon is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “class of Soviet and Comecon minicomputers produced in the 1970s and 1980s” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q945534. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “SM EVM” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.