You know that since you mentioned possibly using CMOS 22V10's why not just build a board around AMD 29XX bit slice parts. They actually predate 22V10's by quite a bit and you can pretty much implement what every you want to without rewiring.
Marc On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 8:57 AM Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 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 retained all the horrible > things about the PDP-8 that I hated. > > Jon >