8 Jul
2024
8 Jul
'24
4 a.m.
On Fri, 5 Jul 2024, Peter Yardley wrote:
The DG Nova had a pretty nice architecture. 2
accumulators, 2 index
registers, program counter, status register. No stack register tho.
There was a micro processor version by Fairchild.
The story behind it is interesting too. The designer at DEC (Ed de
Castro) tried to promote it, Ken Olson didn't like it, so he left to form
Data General and created the DG Nova.
OK, not a Unix box...
-- Dave