On 01/06/2019 01:54 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: >> And then the PDP-11 put the nail in that coffin (and in 1980, there were more >> PDP-11's, world-wide, than any other kind of computer). > I bet the guys at Zilog might have something to talk to you about. > > -- > Will And Intel! 8008 and 8080 was a byte machine as was 8085, z80, 8088, 6800, 6502, and a long list to follow.
The PDP-11 was unique that it was 8/16 bit in that memory (and by default IO) supported both byte and word reads and write. Instructions were 16bit but data was byte word. There were more Z80 based machines (TRS-80 alone exceeded 250,000) than PDP-11. History guys, we are about history! Allison
