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On 5/17/2013 2:35 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: quoting Toby above, agree. I compiled the PDP8 simh emulation for the heck of it for the 32 bit part on MPLAB a couple of years ago as a proof of concept to make a PDP8 chip with this Microchip part supplying the processor heavy lifting I see your choice of parts @ Microchip is suggested to be replaced by the PIC32. I may have to revisit and see if one could pull off a PDP8 + hard drive (of some persuasion) in the microchip, and produce a hardware emulation of the pdp8. the other bit of the puzzle would be blinking lights and inputting I/O, but given the limited I/O it would probably be serial and be just fine. BTW the biggest problem was the limited space for executable in the PIC parts. the cpus have lots of gopower, and probably would run the emulation just fine. Certainly with the PDP8/S as a low end performance datapoint, It would have to exceed that. There of course would be quite a bit of tinkering to make the PDP device map to the IDE, but at least Toby did the heavy lifting as far as moving data. Thanks Jim