8 Oct
2007
8 Oct
'07
11:11 a.m.
Allison wrote:
RX02 works with PDP-8, WD1793 works with Cmos6120
(PDP-8), VAXen and
other long word machines are using floppy and other 8bit interfaces.
VAX 780 microcode was loaded from floppy.
I grew up in alas in a PC world.I got to play with a 8 but that
is about all.
Most of those systems had already dealt with the
8bit/n-bit issue
and as devices got larger and space less an issue it became less
an issue. If it were, then PCs would have 32bit wide HDC rather
than 16bit.
I like 16 bits for IDE ... You can cut that down to say 12 bits for
your PDP-8. 9 or 12 bits for the cpu depending on what cpu I build.:)