I don't know anything about the PDP-8, but isn't using a Raspberry PI completely overkill? Wouldn't a much more basic ATmega328P be enough for the task?
>> I don't know anything about the PDP-8, but isn't using a Raspberry PI completely overkill? > He should have gone for a PDP-11! As an aside, simh is a really awesome piece of software.
But it's just as hard to find a working PDP-11, and even if simh runs on it, would it be fast enough to emulate a PDP-8?:)
Ya, it's kind of a non-story really. Ok, he used a replica panel, and you can't just buy those online easily. But a raspberry pi running an emulator is just decidedly not geeky. I can run Unix version 1 and 6 and BSD 2.9 on my Mac and PC, but I don't tell people I rebuilt a PDP-7 or PDP-11 or VAX.
Meanwhile there ARE people out there who have built real computers and CPUs from scratch as a hobby, without any emulators behind the scenes. Check out the http://members.iinet.net.au/~d... [iinet.net.au] web ring. Those are
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I don't know anything about the PDP-8, but isn't using a Raspberry PI completely overkill? Wouldn't a much more basic ATmega328P be enough for the task?
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>> I don't know anything about the PDP-8, but isn't using a Raspberry PI completely overkill?
> He should have gone for a PDP-11! As an aside, simh is a really awesome piece of software.
But it's just as hard to find a working PDP-11, and even if simh runs on it, would it be fast enough to emulate a PDP-8? :)
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Are you kidding? That machine had as many as 8 instructions! And 12-bit memory. And, uh, that's all I remember.
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Ya, it's kind of a non-story really. Ok, he used a replica panel, and you can't just buy those online easily. But a raspberry pi running an emulator is just decidedly not geeky. I can run Unix version 1 and 6 and BSD 2.9 on my Mac and PC, but I don't tell people I rebuilt a PDP-7 or PDP-11 or VAX.
Meanwhile there ARE people out there who have built real computers and CPUs from scratch as a hobby, without any emulators behind the scenes. Check out the http://members.iinet.net.au/~d... [iinet.net.au] web ring. Those are