Questions tagged [pdp-11]
For questions regarding the DEC PDP-11 minicomputer.
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Can PDP-11 general registers be referenced by memory addresses?
From time to time it is mentioned in RC that the PDP-11 general registers R0-R7 are accessible at addresses 177700 to 177717 (considered as 16 bit program addresses).
The mapping is as follows, again ...
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PDP-11 JMP and JSR - how was the target specified?
As I understand it, the PDP-11 has a 16-bit address space with a fully loaded system having 28k words (56k bytes) after reserving some of the address space for I/O, which means if instructions must be ...
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How were Western computer chips reverse-engineered in USSR?
The British ZX Spectrum computer had many clones in the Eastern Bloc. It seems many of them were built using Russian-made chips from the Angstrem factory in Zelenograd in/near Moscow. The Russian ...
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Why did the PDP-11 include a JMP instruction?
The PDP-11's program counter was addressable in two ways: as a general purpose register or as a memory location.
Still, the PDP-11's instruction set included separate instructions for moving a new ...
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Were there any LSI-11 like home computers outside of Russia?
In my childhood I had one of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronika_BK
Note, that the CPU of this is based on LSI-11. This is rather surprising because PDP-11 took a room (I was lucky ...
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PDP-11 instruction set inconsistencies
The wiki page PDP-11 architecture has a cryptic paragraph with no references or examples:
Inconsistent instructions
Over the life of the PDP-11, subtle differences arose in the implementation of ...
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'Trap stack push abort' on the PDP-11 with SIMH
I'm trying to run a bare-metal example program from the DL11 manual that echoes user input. When I try to run it via SIMH however I get a 'Trap stack push abort' error when it tries to access address ...
