PDP8 and Z-machine engine

woodelf bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Tue Sep 5 11:58:44 CDT 2006


Johnny Billquist wrote:

> woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:

> OS/8 is a very limited OS. Whatever underlying hardware you use is 
> irrelevant. It's all a question of what you're emulating, and I would 
> recommend that your code works on atleast a few different combinations 
> of hardware.

I leave that comment for DOS. With the PDP-8 you got a lot
for your memory and at least standard TTY I/O. I still grumble
of how badly serial I/O was for the Pee-Cee was and still is ...
see usb drivers.
>     Johnny




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