Sean Haas @adventofcomputing has a new podcast episode out - the first of three about the #DEC #PDP11. In the first episode, he covers the evolution of the design of the PDP-11, from its orthogonal instruction set to the innovation of #Unibus.

Part two will cover #LSI11 and the third will discuss applications and derivatives of these chips.

Subscriber-only for now: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-163-ever-137192301

...but it'll show up on the open RSS feed soon enough: https://adventofcomputing.com

Sean's not active on the Fediverse but his output is consistently fresh and interesting - you never get the old regurgitated stories. He ought to get more attention.

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #computerhistory

Did you know that... ?

- Before it was ported to the Intel 8086 on the PC platform, the original version of Tetris was written in 1985 for the M2 processor.

Yes, that's right, the M2... as in M2 the Soviet CPU that powered the Elektronika 60 computer, a clone of the LSI-11/ PDP-11.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronika_60

Alexey Pajitnov completed the first version of Tetris for the M2 on the Elektronika 60 on June 6 1985.

#LSI11 #PDP11 #Elektronika60 #tetris #M2 #retrocomputing #Электроника60 #retrogaming