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?:)
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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? :)