How about the advent of Unix and C? Both made for
the PDP-11. And the
PDP-8 was considered the first potentially personal computer (it could fit
in your house, albeit it cost in the vicinity of $10k when it first came
out).
Ok, so the PDPs didn't influence hardware that much and they weren't home
computers.
The 68000 series was based on the PDP-11 design. Not much influence?
William Donzelli
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