70's computers

[Jon Elson]

On 10/24/2018 08:13 AM, allison via cctalk wrote:
> On 10/23/2018 05:32 PM, Gordon Henderson via cctalk wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, ben via cctalk wrote:
>>
>>> The PDP 11 is nice machine, but I am looking  for simpler designs
>>> where 16K words is a valid memory size for a OS and small single user
>>> software.
>> Try the Modular One with an OS written in BCPL.
>>
>> https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/3230/PRG08.pdf
>>
>> Although that paper suggest 32K of core.
>>
>> -Gordon
> Why not the Data General Nova,  16bits and fairly simple.
>
>
Yeah, basically a PDP-8 with a wider word.  No surprise, 
Edson De Castro designed the PDP-8 first, at DEC, before 
creating Data General.  And, it retained all the horrible 
things about the PDP-8 that I hated.

Jon