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Thanks for the input. I did not know I was supposed to do that. I have added the attribution to 31-bit computing. RastaKins (talk) 17:45, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

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PDP-11 architecture

Thanks for your new text here mentioning coroutines. I tightened the paragraph up a bit. Your Edit Summary says that the text came from a "WD16 article" but I can't figure out what that is. It might help if you added a reference. Spike-from-NH (talk) 20:18, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the edits. Look for WD16 in Wikipedia. RastaKins (talk) 14:14, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

I get it! I thought you meant "article" as in externally published article. Cheers! Spike-from-NH (talk) 03:00, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Note to all: Fountains of Bryn Mawr has disingenuously posted this warning on my talk page. Mawr has been reverting my edits to the history of personal computers article; I have not been reverting Mawr. See history. I made the initial edit. There is a long discussion on the article's talk page. Notice Mawr's determined unwillingness to arrive at a consensus or provide constructive editing to improve the article. RastaKins (talk) 19:28, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

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Alpha Microsystems revert

Sounds like we have an issue with our source, then. The very title of the Dr. Dobbs article is "A PDP-11-Like 16-Bit Micro for the S-100 Bus". Why would that make its operating system more like the PDP-10 than the PDP-11? Bumm13 (talk) 21:41, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Okay, you're right, the Dr. Dobbs article does make several references to the operating system having various DecSystem-10 (PDP-10) conventions. Bumm13 (talk) 21:48, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

What Wilcox is coyly talking about is that he heisted a lot of concepts from TOPS-10. Alpha Micro got sued for this by DEC. In particular from the TOPS-10 article: "TOPS-10 had a very robust application programming interface (API) that used a mechanism called a UUO or Unimplemented User Operation. UUOs implemented operating system calls in a way that made them look like machine instructions."

What does this mean for the Alpha Micro? AMOS SVCA B and C operating system calls (see WD-16) used standard PDP-11 addressing modes for their arguments. So you could open a file in any of these ways:

OPEN file

OPEN file(R2)

LEA R2, file; OPEN @R2

OPEN @(SP)+

RastaKins (talk) 22:06, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

PDP-11 architecture bis

I've undone your most recent edit. Yes, MARK is a miserable instruction. But the paragraph you edited sets out the general nature of processor registers (and the idea of orthogonality). Including the exceptional, non-orthogonal, and rarely-used MARK instruction complicates this introduction, and for little benefit. You describe MARK adequately (and better than I had) when we come to it. In fact, MARK's non-orthogonality is not unique; the non-miserable branch instructions all exclusively use R7, and the trap instructions use R6 and R7. Spike-from-NH (talk) 01:32, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Good points. The revert was a good move. RastaKins (talk) 03:11, 25 July 2024 (UTC)