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Subject: Re: pdp-11/55
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Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 22:47:16 EDT
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In article <8740@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Choke cough.  No.  The 60 was grossly inferior to the 70 in most ways:
>hardware address space, integer processing speed, I/O bandwidth, etc.
The only interesting thing about the 11/60 is that it had (because of
the (writable) microcode) many interesting (to some) instructions.
Not having my PDP-11 Processor Handbooks right at hand (Where did I
put them? They were here only 6 years ago) and never having programmed
one, I'm not sure of all the instructions, but they included string and
BCD operations (COBOL city, S/360 killers, etc.).  I'm not sure any
compilers ever produced code for the /60, as it was the only machine
that had these instructions.
	../Dave Mason