On 2018-10-24 12:57 p.m., Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > On 10/24/2018 08:13 AM, allison via cctalk wrote: >> On 10/23/2018 05:32 PM, Gordon Henderson via cctalk wrote: >>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, ben via cctalk wrote: >>> >>>> The PDP 11 is nice machine, but I am looking for simpler designs >>>> where 16K words is a valid memory size for a OS and small single user >>>> software. >>> Try the Modular One with an OS written in BCPL. >>> >>> https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/3230/PRG08.pdf >>> >>> Although that paper suggest 32K of core. >>> >>> -Gordon >> Why not the Data General Nova, 16bits and fairly simple. >> >> > Yeah, basically a PDP-8 with a wider word. No surprise, Edson De Castro > designed the PDP-8 first, at DEC, before creating Data General. And, it
Yep. (Letter posted by Bruce Ray) https://imgur.com/a/ZeED5bL > retained all the horrible things about the PDP-8 that I hated. > > Jon > So you won't be at NOVApalooza then? It's not too late to sign up: http://www.novapalooza.org/ --Toby
