[rescue] Sun 711

[dave at cca.org]

mrbill at mrbill.net writes:

>On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 01:24:00AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>   Ahh, one of their last *good* processor designs.
><snip>
>>   Agreed.  Though their processor design borders on the absurd.

>Would you recommend the PDP-11 architecture as being good to study for
>a beginner student on computer architecture and processor workings?

I'd vote for the 11 too.

It is difficult to describe just how usefull a full front panel
is, when trying to learn the low-level workings of a machine.

Even if many of the details of a PDP-11 are different than a
modern machine, having a full front panel outweighs those disadvantages.
(And the universal concepts outnumber the divergent details anyways.)

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