25 Jul
1998
25 Jul
'98
4:04 a.m.
< How many instructions? I believe the Pentium has on the order of 80, not
< sure.
More like 100+, not counting all the addressing modes. the instuction set
for the 8086 is many times larger than the PDP-8. The PDP-8 instuction
set is 47 (most all variations included), it's very minimal.
< They weren't networked at all? I mean, there weren't instances of
< connecting two machines with cables?
Actually there was DECnet-8! Dual processor machines were not uncommon.
but they were not networked like you would current machines. It was not
the mindset of that era and generally not required.
Allison