Re:The PDP-7 Where Unix Began
by pmiller2 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @03:28PM
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I learned on a PDP-11, but we had 8’s available, too. They felt very similar. I think the 11 had maybe 15-ish instructions?
Edit: just checked, and the 11 has about 70 instructions. I think MACRO-11 might abstract over many of them, making it look like it has fewer instructions. The instructions group nicely into a few families, which makes things really easy.
Edit: just checked, and the 11 has about 70 instructions. I think MACRO-11 might abstract over many of them, making it look like it has fewer instructions. The instructions group nicely into a few families, which makes things really easy.