> > > IMO T11 should be a subclass of PDP11, be better if a PDP11 core is created and
> > once
> > > that's matured enough, add(merge) T11 to it.
> > >
> > > http://www.village.org/pdp11/faq.html
> > > huge timegap between the two
> > > PDP-11: 1970
> > > T-11: early 80s
> > >
> >
> > So the PDP-11 is an earlier version of the T-11 but has 14 MORE OPcodes? You'd
> think
> > it would be the other way around or does the T-11 have a bunch of other codes that
> > the PDC-11 doesn't?
>
> I believe this is entirely correct, and I'm not particularly surprised by it. While
> the T-11 may have been much later, it was also considerably cheaper than a
> minicomputer.
Ah I see - reading this thread with the assumption that the older chip's opcodes were a subset of the newer and not the other way around was confusing me no end!
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