9 Aug
2006
9 Aug
'06
3:42 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
I like the fact that, from the programmer's
perspective, plugging
boards into a PDP-8 essentially adds device-specific instructions to the
CPU. I don't think it's the cleanest or most elegant way of doing
things, but I like how different (from today's stuff) it is, and I think
it's clever.
What I liked about the PDP-8/e was how dense it was, for being made
of TTL.