off topic - capatob - saratov2 computer Russsian pdp8? HELP

allison allisonportable at gmail.com
Sun Jan 6 13:41:58 CST 2019


On 01/06/2019 01:54 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
>> And then the PDP-11 put the nail in that coffin (and in 1980, there were more
>> PDP-11's, world-wide, than any other kind of computer).
> I bet the guys at Zilog might have something to talk to you about.
>
> --
> Will
And Intel!  8008 and 8080 was a byte machine as was 8085, z80,  8088,
6800, 6502, and a long list to follow.

The PDP-11 was unique that it was 8/16 bit in that memory (and by
default IO) supported both byte and word
reads and write.   Instructions were 16bit but data was byte word.  

There were more  Z80 based machines (TRS-80 alone exceeded 250,000) than
PDP-11.
History guys, we are about history!

Allison




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