You can get an emulated 11/23 running 4.2 BSD for $3.00. That's crazy.
On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM Frank Leonhardt via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 10/09/2025 18:34, Jim Davis via cctalk wrote:
Yep, 16 bits, or even 32 seemed like a lot, If
you're writing asm, It is.
But like you alluded to, it's not good enough for the stuff we expect
today,
I believe it was Chuck Moore that said "If you can't do it in 8K it's
not worth doing", before designing the Novix chip with 32K of address
space.