15 Jan
2015
15 Jan
'15
3:41 a.m.
Johnny Billquist wrote:
Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
If you just use the "natural" 8-bite byte packing for a word
(i.e. what IBP does, and also the subset the one-word global byte
pointers support), I don't see that it would be so much harder. The
PDP-10 byte instructions are quite convenient for bit fidding.
Why would PDP-10 be so much harder?
Everything is of course doable, but there will be a whole lot of bit
fiddling and juggling doing TCP/IP on a PDP-10.