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[jeanjour at comcast.net (John Day)]

The thing I remember about this (not much) ;-) is that they didn't understand that auto-increment, auto-decrement addressing modes should be on opposite sides of the instruction so they can be used for stack operations.  I figured it was an indicator.


> On Oct 11, 2016, at 09:44, Scott Bradner <sob at sobco.com> wrote:
> 
> this is the story I remember at the time -almost all of  the DG founders were all ex-DEC people
> particularly Ed de Castro who ran the PDP-8 stuff for DEC - the Nova was basically a glorified PDP-8
> 
> Scott
> 
>> On Oct 10, 2016, at 3:32 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> From: "John Levine" <johnl at iecc.com>
>> 
>>> There was a competing 16 bit word addressed design by the designer of
>>> the PDP-8, which after DEC rejected it became the DG Nova.
>> 
> 
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