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Article #625528Re: PDP 11/40 system manual
From: Peter Flass
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:33
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:33
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Questor <usenet@only.tnx> wrote: > 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. > > I probably didn't program it enough to form good habits, but ISTR I spent an inordinate amount of time deciding whether I wanted to use the one- two-, or three-address instruction forms. -- Pete
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