4 Dec
2014
4 Dec
'14
4:03 p.m.
Fair point Rich - and greetings to you too! I'm guessing here I'm talking
about a PDP-11 of some description, but I still have yet to step my toes in
that particular pond. I get the feeling I'll sink fast!
Mark.
On 4 December 2014 at 20:03, Rich Alderson <RichA at livingcomputermuseum.org>
wrote:
From: Mark Wickens
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 12:47 AM
Has anyone considered whether it would be
possible to port lua to the
PDP?
You know, there never was (or only for a very short time) such a thing
as "the PDP". DEC produced systems with 5 different architectures (or
4.5, if you lump the two 18-bit architectures together; I usually do)
under the rubric "PDP-<small integer>": The PDP-1, the PDP-4/7/9/15,
the PDP-5/8 family, the PDP-6/10 family, and the PDP-11 family. I would
argue that only the original PDP-1 could rightly be called "the PDP",
but even then, DEC had designed the 24-bit PDP-2 and the 36-bit PDP-3
which they did not build themselves, for a total of 7 architectures
designated "PDP".
Back when I was doing sales support for XKL, a lovely lady who did
consulting in the oil industry advised me that we should be selling the
Toad-1 in that market "because there are PDPs *everywhere* in the fields!"
(Steps off soap box, walks away from Hyde Park.)
(Hi, Mark! ;-)
Rich
Rich Alderson
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