17 Sep
2017
17 Sep
'17
4:31 p.m.
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Arthur Krewat <krewat(a)kilonet.net> wrote:
Was there ever a UNIX or even the thought of porting
one to a PDP-10?
36-bit machine, 18-bit addresses (more on KL10 and KS10), and:
*0 would return register 0 instead of a SIGSEGV ;)
8-bit bytes would have been a wasteful exercise, but you never know.
(losing 4 bits of every 36-bit word)
IIRC, there was a NetBSD/pdp10. Don't know how far it got.
The instructor of my first C course in college wrote a very good C compiler
for TOPS-10/TOPS-20.
Warner