[rescue] PDP-11 handhelds

Brian Hechinger wonko at 4amlunch.net
Fri May 3 11:27:50 CDT 2002


On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:58:48AM -0500, Mike Hebel wrote:
> 
> PDP-11 for Palm.  An interesting concept.
> Could you do an '11 on Palm or would you have to do something like an
> 8?  "Embedded PDP"?

it shouldn't be too hard to use one of them FPGA things and build an entire
PDP-11 on a chip like has been planned for the VAX as well.  could very easily
make a handheld outta that. ;)

> Hmmm...hand-held "big iron" emulators.  A new and interesting way to play SpaceWar
> on your Palm. ;-)

add it to the list of crazy shit to do, i still want to see the VAX laptop get
built.

-brian
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