I have heard that story to. _IF_ you have WCS for the 11/60 ... not very common. But even with WCS installed, there is a “small” problem: the PDP-8 microcode for the 11/60 is lost ☹
From my website: The only other PDP-11 that has a WCS option (KUV11, M8018) is the PDP-11/03, KD11-F processor. Ritchie Lary wrote the micro-code for the PDP-11/60 to emulate the PDP-8 instruction set, making it the "fastest PDP-8 ever". It is a pity that the source code seems to be lost. Even Ritchie Lary, the author, no longer had the source when Eric Smith inquired some years back (~2011 - 2012), and Ritchie did not think that anyone else was likely to have it. So, it appears to be lost forever. I love to hear whether somebody has that source code! But then, I lack the tools to compile that. IIRC, you need a microcode compiler and some other tool … Van: Ian S. King via cctalk<mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org> Verzonden: woensdag 1 maart 2017 03:51 Aan: Ethan Dicks<mailto:ethan.di...@gmail.com>; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts<mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org> Onderwerp: Re: IBM S/32, PDP-11/60+RL01, PDP-11/34, East Lansing MI PDP-11/60 - the fastest PDP-8 ever built! :-) -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
