when the PDP 11 first came out, that was the first time I wanted a computer for myself at home, the earlier ones that I knew of had too cockeyed and limited instruction sets, after my programming experience being on mainframes with CISC instructions. I actually thought about how much sacrifice it would take to buy one.
> > > On 9/10/25 08:32, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > >> On Sep 9, 2025, at 8:52 PM, Martin Eberhard via cctalk < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >> 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 > > > > > > > -- --Carey
