[Info-vax] Y3K for PDP-11 Operating Systems

[John Wallace]

On May 4, 7:10 pm, glen herrmannsfeldt <g... at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> In vmsnet.pdp-11 Bill Gunshannon <billg... at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>
> (snip, someone wrote)
>
> >> 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?
> > And software?  At least 5 different OSes.  Wide language support.  Many
> > commercial applications.
> > 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.
>
> As I understand it, processors based on the Z80, though maybe not
> made by Zilog, are used in many current products, such as the popular
> TI graphing calculators in the TI-81 family.
>
> I don't know that I ever heard of a PDP-11 being used in a
> popular calculator.
>
> -- glen

It's only a few years since the Z80 was a reasonably ubiquitous
processor in cellphones, though it was well hidden and there weren't
many associated jobs for Z80 programmers or Z80 system designers.
Obviously the various flavours of ARM are now the default choice in
that market.