9 May
2005
9 May
'05
9:22 a.m.
Allison wrote:
Decmate II/III uses 6120 (PDP-8 with EMA). There is no
*nix for the PDP-8
and OS278 is common. FYI: VMS runs on VAX(32bit) and Alpha(64bit).
And the almost dead Intel IA-64 bit line.
If you can fit the game format into a 32Kword 12bit
machine it's possible.
Generally speaking there isn't a C compiler for PDP-8 I know of and the
4k paged addressing and very minimalist instruction set would be an
interesting challenge. I've seen Fortan, Focal, Basic and even algol
on an 8 but never C.
I think that C really needs to have a stack to be useful: recursive
calls, pass by (alterable) value, multiple levels of local variables,
etc. At least it is much easier to implement if you have a stack.
Does there exist a good C compiler for any machine lacking a stack?
There is also the VAXmate, a flavor of a 286 clone.
Allison