Re: PDP 11/40 system manual

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From: Questor
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 07:55

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On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 22:16:29 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:
>Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes:
>>On 8/9/2018 1:45 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
>>> Elliott Roper <nos...@yrl.co.uk> writes:
>>> 
>>>> On 8 Aug 2018, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote
>>>> (in article<21aaeee8-c41a-4442...@googlegroups.com>):
>>> 
>>>>> Bitsavers uploaded the system manual for the PDP 11/40.
>>> 
>>>>> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/1140/DEC-11-H40SA-A-D_PDP-11_40_System_
>>>>> manual.pdf
>>> 
>>>>> 358 pages, undated.
>>> 
>>>> Thanks. Unbounded nostalgia. Was there ever a more elegant computer than a
>>>> PDP-11?
>>> 
>>> Yes, many.
>>
>>*Not* that I disagree...  but which other computers do you find elegant???
>
>B6700.  B3500.  HP-3000.
>
>And the epitome of the CISC processor, the VAX-11.

Sixteen addressing modes, single instructions to calculate CRCs and polynomials,
string translation instructions... the VAX had just about everything except an
opcode for "phase of the moon."  Too many bells and whistles to be considered
elegant, IMO.

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