[TUHS] Unix on PDP8?
Ron Natalie
ron at ronnatalie.com
Thu Nov 30 00:31:44 AEST 2017
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 at 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!
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