10 Sep
2025
10 Sep
'25
10:34 a.m.
Yep, 16 bits, or even 32 seemed like a lot, If you're writing asm, It is.
But like you alluded to, it's not good enough for the stuff we expect today,
On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM ben via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 2025-09-10 8:46 a.m., Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 9/10/25 08:32, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
But even then you could see the hand writing on the wall for 16 bits.
> On Sep 9, 2025, at 8:52 PM, Martin Eberhard
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> <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> I just love the PDP11's assembly language.
Yes, the PDP-11 machine language was INCREDIBLY brilliant, and did the
very best with what you could do in 16 bits!
Jon
Still waiting for the PDP K.
Ben.