25 Jul
2014
25 Jul
'14
1:56 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
That?s probably pretty accurate, but even so, it was
well know around DEC that the PDP-11/60 was the world?s fastest PDP-8.
And just imagine how fast an -8 the 11/60 would have been if the
hardware data paths and microbranches had been designed to efficiently
be an -8! :-)
If -8 microcode was written for a KL10, that might have made an even
faster -8 than the 11/60, but I've never heard of anyone even
attempting it. I think -8 microcode for the KS10 probably would have
been slower than the 11/60.