29 Nov
2017
29 Nov
'17
8:31 p.m.
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.
-----Original Message-----
From: TUHS [mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of Lars Brinkhoff
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1:56 AM
To: Will Senn
Cc: Tuhs
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix on PDP8?
Will Senn wrote:
Was Unix ever ported to a PDP8, or any other 12 bit
environment, for
that matter?
There are Unix-like systems for 8-bit micros which might possibly be adapted
for PDP-8. Lunix, UZI, FUZIX...
I've been messing around in the PDP8 emulation
world and enjoying the
excursion into simplified ISA and memory architectures.
The tiny instruction set is surprisingly versatile!