On 11/3/24 15:39, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Yes, but you don't need such an architecture for this. A PDP-11 can do it also. I once assigned that as a a pair of homework questions in an assembly language programming course: 1. Show a one-word PDP-11 program that writes all of memory, in reverse order. 2. Show a one-word PDP-11 program that clears all of memory, in forward order, halting on completion.
Yes, I did something like this when we got our first VAX 11/780. Jon
