z-machine on pdp8 (or paging Woodelf)

[David Griffith]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> > David Griffith wrote:
> > > Last year Woodelf posted a question wondering if a Z-machine could be
> > > ported to the pdp8.  Woodelf, did you get anywhere with that?
> >
> > The problem with a Z-Machine that memory, 32K bytes just covers the game
> > data. About 10k+ for the Z-machine and 8k+ for a OS. The PDP-8 just
> > does not have the memory.
>
> What about on an -8/a?  I believe I've got a new 128k board for an -8/a, I
> just don't have an -8/a.

One of the big things that allowed the Z-machine to run on machines of
limited memory was its virtual memory functionality.  Most modern
implementations don't bother with this anymore.

What I'm really after is getting a V8 (V5 would be acceptable) Z-machine
working on my SBC6120.

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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

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