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+1 for the H-8. Despite being octal on the outside, the CPU was an 8080A, which was all bytes. Go figger.

Blrfl
– Blrfl

2011-08-04 19:42:44 +00:00
Commented Aug 4, 2011 at 19:42
I'd guess they used octal for commonality with the H-11 (which had a PDP-11 CPU).

Jerry Coffin
– Jerry Coffin

2011-08-04 23:03:06 +00:00
Commented Aug 4, 2011 at 23:03
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The 8080 had 8-bit bytes, but the instruction set made more sense if looked at in octal than in hex.

RBerteig
– RBerteig

2011-08-05 02:28:50 +00:00
Commented Aug 5, 2011 at 2:28

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