Infocom on PDP-11

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: Infocom on PDP-11
>   From: Eric J Korpela <korpela at gmail.com>
>   Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:50:02 -0700
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
>
>The C data types only have minimum sizes.  Actual sizes are up to the
>implementation.
>The resulting C data types for a PDP-8  would be 12-bit char, 24 bit
>short and int, 36 bit long.  As long as limits.h contains the correct
>values and the sizeof() operator correctly returns 1, 2 and 3 for the

What about byte as in 6bits.  Thats a valid item for PDP-8 as one 
intruction BSW swaps accumulator halfs.  Also much of the character
IO was 6bit.


>Don't ask me to write the floating point library, though...

Don't have to as there was a good asm one supplied with the machine. ;)


Allison