6 Jan
2019
6 Jan
'19
11:41 a.m.
On 01/06/2019 01:54 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
And Intel!? 8008 and 8080 was a byte machine as was 8085, z80,? 8088,
6800, 6502, and a long list to follow.
The PDP-11 was unique that it was 8/16 bit in that memory (and by
default IO) supported both byte and word
reads and write.?? Instructions were 16bit but data was byte word.??
There were more? Z80 based machines (TRS-80 alone exceeded 250,000) than
PDP-11.
History guys, we are about history!
Allison
And then the
PDP-11 put the nail in that coffin (and in 1980, there were more
PDP-11's, world-wide, than any other kind of computer).
I bet the guys at
Zilog might have something to talk to you about.
--
Will