Then I guess we need to decide which model the quintessential pre-omnibus machine would be. The 8/S would probably be a bad choice to start since it is kind of an oddball.
On Sep 8, 2016 8:34 PM, "Ethan Dicks" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Davis Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've always been fascinated by the PDP-8S, in part because of the great > > story behind it. I keep seeing references to it not being 100% compatible > > with the other PDP-8 systems. How different was it (or how was it > > different)? Is there any 8S specific software extant? > > The only thing I can thing of is FOCAL knows about all the variants, > including the -8/S and does "the right thing". I don't know of code > written for the -8/S and only the -8/S. Mostly, everyone was trying > either to be inclusive of several models, or the specific model they > were writing for, or, eventually, just the OMNIBUS models without > going to any lengths to work with the pre-OMNIBUS models. It kind of > depends on when the code was written and if the code was planned to be > shared outside of the place it was written. > > ISTR the first 3 models (PDP-5, Straight-8, and PDP-8/S) were the > least like later models and dropped off the table first. > > I started with the PDP-8/L, so much of my focus is finding stuff that > reaches back at least that far. I also care about the oldest models, > but I think the biggest "split" is OMNIBUS or pre-OMNIBUS. > > -ethan > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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