5 Apr
2006
5 Apr
'06
11:50 a.m.
Since you
brought it up :) what OSes can you run on a 4K PDP-8?
There are a bunch of stand-alone programs, and a 4K Disk Management
System that lets you load and save programs from disk. Depends on
how you define OS, I guess. (The resident part of the OS is pretty
much just a bootstrap to get the command language interpreter back
into memory.)
More OSes run in an 8K PDP-8 :-). 
5 Apr
5 Apr
12:39 p.m.
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre at floodgap.com>
Well, I don't pretend to have a complete list or anything, but there's
the bigger brother to DMS (and much nicer), OS/8. Also COS, ETOS, TSS-8,
PS-8, MULTOS8, etc. (I'm not sure all will run in 8K; some might require
12K.)
I use OS/8, myself. It seems to have the most stuff floating around online.
(OK, I don't use it much, but it is what I mostly use when working on my
PDP-8's.)
Vince
More OSes run
in an 8K PDP-8 :-).
Such as? (Subject line changed)
I'm just curious since I've always found its instruction set fascinating.
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