Questions tagged [pdp-8]
For questions regarding the DEC PDP-8 minicomputer.
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Use of undocumented opcodes
I figure this is fitting for Retrocomputing.SE because CPUs like the 6502 and Z80 and the PDP-8, and probably others, have undocumented instructions and will happily execute them, in contrast with ...
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How did the PDP-8 handle strings?
The PDP-8 was a popular 12-bit minicomputer of the late sixties. It used word addressing, so that it always dealt in 12-bit words, of which it could address 4096 with a full bank of core memory.
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Arithmetic operations on multiple words on the PDP-8
For the PDP-8 with its strange ISA, I've always wondered what the "standard" (i.e. fastest) way to do arithmetic operations (add, subtract, maybe multiply) on integers consisting of multiple words was....
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Size of the PDP-8
What is the physical size of a PDP-8? The photographs I found seem to be evenly divided between showing it as a compact unit that looks maybe one foot high, and as a tall cabinet maybe five or six ...
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PDP-8 transistor count
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count provides some transistor count figures for early microprocessors, e.g. 8008 and 6502 both listed at around 3500.
The PDP-8 was a 12-bit computer with a ...
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Conditional skip instructions of the PDP-8
I am interested in the SKIP instructions on the PDP-8. These test the accumulator and Link bit, and they skip the next instruction if the condition holds.
The instructions are:
OR GROUP
SMA - Skip ...
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PDP-8 conditional skip and 2-word instructions
PDP-8 heavily relied on conditional skips: instructions that under some circumstances would skip the following instruction. Among them are, for example:
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SZA/SNA/etc. group of insns
many IO insns
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