24 Oct
2018
24 Oct
'18
8:57 a.m.
On 10/24/2018 08:13 AM, allison via cctalk wrote:
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 retained all the horrible
things about the PDP-8 that I hated.
Jon
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