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The weird machine my Computer Architecture class had us learn was the PDP-8, which is almost comically constrained. 12-bit, with exactly one register, no hardwa
by roywiggins 8y ago
The weird machine my Computer Architecture class had us learn was the PDP-8, which is almost comically constrained. 12-bit, with exactly one register, no hardware stack, no arithmetic beyond addition and negation.
- jhallenworld 8y agoI bet you used The Art of Digital Design: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp8/pdp8i/Prosser_The_Art_of_Digital_Design_2ed_1987.pdf http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp8/pd... I started with this design for my relay computer, but evolved it to be even simpler: no accumulator. http://relaysbc.sourceforge.net/arch.html http://relaysbc.sourceforge.net/arch.html
- astrange 8y agoThat's all you need. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer