29 Nov
2017
29 Nov
'17
11:11 p.m.
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017, Ron Natalie wrote:
C itself is going to be difficult on the PDP-8. Too
much ingrained (and
now codified by ANSI/ISO) that requires shorts to be at least 16 bits
and longs to be at least 32 bits, neither of which the 8 supports well.
Even the EAE or FP modules only added limited 24 bit support.
You could start with (an early) Minix, I guess; we ran it on a PDT (I
think) with 2 x RX-05 floppies. Slow, but it worked, sort of.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."