Reply to post: Re: The PDP-11 lives on

Das blinkenlights are back thanks to RPi revival of the PDP-11

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Re: The PDP-11 lives on

" The PDP-11 lives on

...in the Motorola 68000"

Really? I posted a PDP11 programmers card link earlier. Readers familiar with 68K family at this level of detail can have a look at the consistency of the PDP11 instruction encodings and the address modes available and then tell me that the 68K comes anywhere close.

I liked the 68K family, but the relationship between its approach and instruction set architecture and those of the PDP11 family is arms length at best.

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