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Re: Neural Network on a PDP-11/70
- To: "Robert" <robert>
- Subject: Re: Neural Network on a PDP-11/70
- From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:16:55 -0700
I never used assembly on a Vax, but my understanding is that it was very
close to the PDP-11/70 assembly, except it used 32 bits for most
operations.
I use VMS on Vax during my first job after college in 1987 / 1988. I
found it difficult ('tho I liked file versioning).
I learned 6502 assembly language (on an Apple II), but not 68000. A
similar story to the PDP/Vax: my understanding was that 68000 was mostly
based on 6502, but many of its operations were 16-bit instead of 8-bit.
At the time, I was very happy that C was ported to virtually all known
architectures so I could avoid learning such things. ð