Infocom on PDP-11

[Ethan Dicks]

On 5/8/05, Philip Pemberton <philpem at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure just how powerful the 6100 is, but I doubt it would be too
> difficult to port one of the simpler Z-machine engines from Linux or BSD to
> whatever the DECmate runs (VMS?)

In theory, it's not impossible.  In practice, with the 16-bit/12-bit
span problem I mentioned in another post, there are difficulties. 
Also, one would not be porting a C program to the -8... one would be
writing it in assembler (also done back in the old days, with pretty
much every 8-bit micro interpreter that Infocom did.  The one for the
C-64 is about 6K bytes vs about 35K bytes for the initial Amiga
interpreter in C).

-ethan