4 points | by thunderbong 2 days ago ago
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If you, like myself, were wondering why the opcodes are written in octal, apparently modern hex notation was new at the time: PDP-11 was introduced in 1970, 0-F hex in 1966: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal
If you, like myself, were wondering why the opcodes are written in octal, apparently modern hex notation was new at the time: PDP-11 was introduced in 1970, 0-F hex in 1966: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal