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From: peterb@pbear.UUCP
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Subject: Re: PDP-8 Story
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 13:04:00 EDT
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Thanx for the applause. I like it. (your story that is :-).

What I would like to see is a proposal of a "next generation" PDP-8,

Something with say:

	16 bit memory
	65K fields
	256 fields (yields 24Mb memory)
	each field broken to 256 256 word pages
	direct addressing mode (so arryas and stuff don't have to be paged)
	built in extended AU
	other goodies.

	Oh Yeah, a stack would be quite useful.

This type of architecture would encourage (NOT force) the programmer to
write localized code for his routines. Also language compilers would be
designed to take advantage of this concept.

Also VM overhead would be smaller since the locality of page operations
would keep paging activity lower than say a VAX. In fact I would not
be suprised if this type of architecture could beat a VAX in terms of

	(probably fit in less memory and run faster :-)

Any Ideas???

Peter Barada
ima!pbear!peterb
ihnp4!inmet!pbear!peterb

	I welcome contructive ideas, but If you are going to flame me for
thinking of such a monstrosity, snuff it!