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+# cpus-pdp8
+Verilog FPGA PDP-8/i cpu
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+A working PDP-8/i cpu with an RF08 disk emulator which uses a IDE disk as a backing store.  It boots TSS/8.
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+Included are several versions of TSS/8 sources with utilites to build the base o/s from scratch.
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+A base file system with utilties is required as I have not yet found all the sources for the base utilties.
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