24 Oct
2018
24 Oct
'18
12:48 p.m.
On 2018-10-24 12:57 p.m., Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 10/24/2018 08:13 AM, allison via cctalk wrote:
Yep. (Letter posted by Bruce Ray) https://imgur.com/a/ZeED5bL
On 10/23/2018 05:32 PM, Gordon Henderson via
cctalk wrote:
Yeah, basically a PDP-8 with a wider word.? No surprise, Edson De Castro
designed the PDP-8 first, at DEC, before creating Data General.? And, it On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, ben via cctalk wrote:
Why not the Data General Nova,? 16bits and fairly simple.
The PDP 11 is nice machine, but I am looking? for
simpler designs
where 16K words is a valid memory size for a OS and small single user
software.
Try the Modular One with an OS written in BCPL.
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/3230/PRG08.pdf
Although that paper suggest 32K of core.
-Gordon retained all the horrible things about the PDP-8 that
I hated.
Jon
So you won't be at NOVApalooza then? It's not too late to sign up:
http://www.novapalooza.org/
--Toby