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		roywiggins on Nov 16, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines The weird machine my Computer Architecture class had us learn was the PDP-8, which is almost comically constrained. 12-bit, with exactly one register, no hardware stack, no arithmetic beyond addition and negation.

jhallenworld on Nov 16, 2018 | [–]

I bet you used The Art of Digital Design:

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp8/pd...

I started with this design for my relay computer, but evolved it to be even simpler: no accumulator.

http://relaysbc.sourceforge.net/arch.html

astrange on Nov 16, 2018 | [–]

That's all you need.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer

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