Litton Industries Monrobot XI computers available

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Wed Feb 26 16:05:01 2003

Eric Smith wrote:

> The PDP-8 does closer to a million calculations per second.


While Operate and Jump instructions require 1 memory cycle,
most intructions require two memory cycles.Indirect is a
extra cycle. Asuming about a 1.5 us memory cycle and two cycle
intructions that is 3.0 us per instruction or 333,000 instructions
per second. Still quite fast.
Ben.
Received on Wed Feb 26 2003 - 16:05:01 GMT