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From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: PDP-8 Story
Message-ID: <2693@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-May-85 05:34:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: nsc.2693
Posted: Sat May 11 05:34:13 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 11-May-85 15:20:54 EDT
References: <1864@topaz.UUCP> <3500002@pbear.UUCP>
Reply-To: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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Summary: 

In article <3500002@pbear.UUCP> peterb@pbear.UUCP writes:
>
>What I would like to see is a proposal of a "next generation" PDP-8,
>
>	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.
>
>Any Ideas???

Sounds a lot like a Z8000  (Z8000 + Z8015, to be precise), except that the
Z8000 also has a decent register set.
-- 
Richard Mateosian
{allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!srm    nsc!srm@decwrl.ARPA