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Mentec International Ltd was founded in 1978[1] and initially focused on the development of monitoring and control software and systems. It was a significant Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) reseller and OEM in Ireland.[1] Mentec Computer Systems Limited was a subsidiary of Mentec Limited that repackaged PDP-11 processors. Mentec Inc.[2] was a US-based subsidiary of Mentec Limited. In the early 1980s it had a range of remote terminal units based on the SBC/11-21 (Falcon).
Once the DEC J-11 PDP-11 processor chip set became available in 1982 Mentec commenced the design of its first PDP-11 single board computer, the M70.
In 1994 Digital transferred the PDP-11 operating systems to Mentec Inc.[3]
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- ^ "PDP-11 RSX RT RSTS Emulator Osprey Charon". Archived from the original on August 13, 2006. Retrieved August 8, 2010.
- ^ "Digital And Mentec, Inc. Announce PDP-11 Software Agreement" (Press release). June 29, 1994.