[TUHS] Unix on PDP8?

[Ron Natalie]

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!