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Subject: Decmate III
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Date: 29 Aug 90 14:35:00 GMT
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A DECmate III is a PDP8 (yes, 12 bit words and all).
You can use WPS on it, or by a bit of fiddling with os/278 (available
from the DECUS library cheap) turn it into a real PDP8 with Basic,
Pascal, assembler, and some other languages. I don't think anyone
has ever written an 8088 emulator for PDP8, though I seem to recall
'way back when that an 8080 emulator did exist. There may be 8088
boards for the DECmate that will let it run some msdos programs,
but the thing will be not much like an IBM PC at all. There is a lot
of interesting (if old) software for PDP8 out there however.