Forth like interpreter
Dennis Lee Bieber
wlfraed at ix.netcom.com
Wed Mar 15 23:29:04 EST 2000
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:44:31 +1300, Greg Ewing
<greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> declaimed the following in
comp.lang.python:
>
> It's interesting to speculate on what a 32-bit PDP11 might
> be like. With a 32-bit opcode, you could have 256 * 3-general-
> operand instructions, with 32 registers and all the PDP11
> addressing modes. Hmmm, I've always though it would be
> fun to build a processor from scratch...
>
It's called a VAX-11 (Virtual Addressing eXtension)... A 32-bit
derivation of the PDP-11 instruction set, adding a few three argument
instructions...
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