> Ah I see - reading this thread with the assumption that the older chip's opcodes were > a subset of the newer and not the other way around was confusing me no end!
The original PDP-11 CPU was done in discrete logic. The later single-chip implementations (T-11 and others) were simplified in various ways due to limitations of the process technology of the time.
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