[Info-vax] [OT] Architectures, was: Re: Y3K for PDP-11 Operating Systems

[Simon Clubley]

On 2011-05-04, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
> In article <H9mdnUTgT5LYfF3QnZ2dnUVZ_uOdnZ2d at giganews.com>,
> 	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>> 
>> Other than primitive hardware and primitive software?  It was a good 
>> machine in its day but its day is LONG GONE!
>> 
>
> Now that's funny, here.  Just how is the Z80 more primitve than the PDP-11?
>

8-bit versus 16-bit architecture ?

Note: I do _not_ regard "more primitive" as meaning "obsolete".

There are plenty of 8-bit architectures around and many of them are under
active development and been used in new products.

Simon.

> And, at this point it is probably debatable which one between the TRS80
> and PDP-11 has more users on both real hardware and emulators.  I have
> quite a bit of both.
>

You are comparing a specific Z80 machine with a architecture. If you
instead compare the two architectures, I would suggest there are _many_
more Z80 class users around (although the vast majority of Z80 class
users will not realise they are users).

(BTW, when it comes to 8-bit architectures, my personal choice is the AVR.)

Simon.

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