On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Zane H. Healy wrote:
David Griffith
wrote:
Last year Woodelf posted a question wondering if
a Z-machine could be
ported to the pdp8. Woodelf, did you get anywhere with that?
The problem with a Z-Machine that memory, 32K bytes just covers the game
data. About 10k+ for the Z-machine and 8k+ for a OS. The PDP-8 just
does not have the memory.
What about on an -8/a? I believe I've got a new 128k board for an -8/a, I
just don't have an -8/a.
One of the big things that allowed the Z-machine to run on machines of
limited memory was its virtual memory functionality. Most modern
implementations don't bother with this anymore.
What I'm really after is getting a V8 (V5 would be acceptable) Z-machine
working on my SBC6120.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at
cs.csubak.edu
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