16 Oct
2007
16 Oct
'07
10:04 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
Besides the OS, there's a few collections of BASIC
programs running
around - several games and a few of the typical utility-type programs.
If you want to write programs, you'll need the right programs for
that - PAL assembler, FORTRAN-II, FORTRAN-IV (slow on an SBC-6120
since it doesn't have the optional-for-a-PDP-8/a FPP12 math
co-processor), BASIC, etc. BASIC.SV should be on most OS/8 distros
you find out there. The FORTRAN stuff might take a little hunting and
gathering.
I still find it hard to belive that PDP-8/a had a math co-processor.
That does make the PDP-8 the smallest computer with real floating
point I can think of. Ben.