Infocom on PDP-11

Allison ajp166 at bellatlantic.net
Sun May 8 17:45:10 CDT 2005


>Subject: Re: Infocom on PDP-11
>   From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
>   Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 16:17:54 -0600
>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>>on an 8 but never C.
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>The lack of local variables makes C very dificult.

Recursion on an 8 is harder to do.  The DECmate II/III use the 6120
and implement the PDP-8a hardware stack for data or addresses but, 
it's still a bit more work.

Than again programming in native assembly is fun on that machine.

Allison


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