[TUHS] Happy birthday, PDP-8!

[Noel Chiappa]

    > From: Arthur Krewat

    >> The PDP-6 (of which the PDP-10 was a clone)

    > Um. More like a natural progression.
    > Like 8086->80186->80286->80386->80486->...

No, the PDP-6 and PDP-10 have identical instruction sets, and in general, a
program that will run on one, will run on the other. See "decsystem10 System
Reference Manual" (DEC-10-XSRMA-A=D", pg. 2-72., which provides a 7-instruction
code fragment which allows a program to work out if it's running on a PDP-6, a
KA10, or a KI10.

The KA10 is a re-implementation (using mostly B-series Flip Chips) of the
PDP-6 (which was built out of System Modules - the predecessor to Flip Chips).

       Noel