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Another common difference was that most earlier small machines were not "general purpose", in that they were designed for a specific role such as process control or accounting. On these machines, programming was generally carried out in their custom machine language, or even hard-coded into a plugboard, although some used a form of BASIC.[citation needed] DEC wrote, regarding their PDP-5, that it was "the world’s first commercially produced minicomputer".[5] It meets most definitions of "mini" in terms of power and size, but was designed and built to be used as an instrumentation system in labs, not as a general-purpose computer.[6] Many similar examples of small special-purpose machines exist from the early 1960s, including the UK Ferranti Argus and Soviet UM-1NKh.