1 Dec
2021
1 Dec
'21
1:28 p.m.
On 12/1/21 12:46 AM, Rich Morin wrote:
The DG Nova
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_Nova) came out in 1969, just a bit before the
PDP-11 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11) My impression, when I (later on) looked at
the Nova ISA, was that they had moved in the right direction from the AQX approach, but
not quite far enough. DEC, IMNSHO, got it right. (ducking).
https://history-computer.com/dec-pdp-11-computer/
is a concise summary of where the pdp-11 architecture came from
(Harold McFarland at CMU) and the origins of the nova from the
and the connection to the dec pdp-x
original source documents can be found at bitsavers