7 Mar
2005
7 Mar
'05
4:17 p.m.
Ron Hudson wrote thus:
On Mar 7, 2005, at 12:21 PM, woodelf wrote:
The LINC is actually a different architecture, and was born slightly
before the PDP-5 (the PDP-8's "dad"); so it's not a PDP8++. DEC
later designed the LINC-8, which was sort of a LINC and a PDP-8 sharing
the same apartment, and later the PDP-12 which could intermingle the
two different instruction sets.
But if you're looking for a hex-based 12-bit architecture to play with,
the LINC architecture probably isn't what you're looking for either. :)
-O.-
I don't know about hex, but the other 12
bitters were the CDC 160
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cdc160/ and the LINC/PDP 12 machines
that I can think of for now.
I looked up the CDC and it looks very hex-ish. I might just do that.
the LINC/PDP12 is just a PDP-8++ right?