6 Feb
2012
6 Feb
'12
11:12 p.m.
Mouse wrote:
Any of them could, under emulation if necessary,,
given some kind of
large-enough storage somehow. But native? The PDP-8 probably could
not. The 8080, maybe, barely - it'd be a little like a PDP-11 without
split I/D.
The 8080? Not likely. If you're going to compare the 8080 to a
PDP-11,
it's a register-starved PDP-11 with no indexing. That means the code
density is going to be *far* worse than PDP-11 code. A Z80 is much
better in that regard.