70's computers

Jon Elson elson at pico-systems.com
Wed Oct 24 21:56:24 CDT 2018


On 10/24/2018 12:01 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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> On 10/24/18 8:57 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
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>> Yeah, basically a PDP-8 with a wider word.
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> Four accumulators, and no memory pages
Yes, and the accumulators could hold addresses, which was a 
big plus.
But, still, storing the subroutine return address in the 
first location of the subroutine.
Ugh, how 1960's that was!

Jon


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