When I went to school there was a seperate course for PDP-11 assembly
language, another was then already using Z-80s (ooh, aah) with HP emulators.
I LOVED it!

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan B Pearce [mailto:A.B.Pearce@RL.AC.UK]
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 1:43 AM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [OT] Ah yes those were the days (but this is now)...


>I think it used a 12 bit word?

The PDP11 family were all 16 bit words. The earlier PDP8 family used a 12
bit
word.