From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix on PDP8?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:31:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00cf01d3691e$c80766e0$581634a0$@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7wr2sh60a9.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>
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!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-29 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-28 19:55 Will Senn
2017-11-28 20:24 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-28 23:26 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-29 6:56 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-29 14:05 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-30 0:53 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-11-30 8:34 ` emanuel stiebler
2017-11-29 14:31 ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2017-11-29 22:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-29 22:28 ` Warren Toomey
2017-11-29 23:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-30 1:17 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-11-30 2:37 ` Dave Horsfall
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