Talk:ND812

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Suggested improvements to ND812

• Lead describes ND812 as designed for the scientific computing market. With no floating point and a tiny address, it must have been targeted for the laboratory market.

• Register info box shows three non-user accessible registers. All other register infoboxes in Wikipedia show only programmer-accessible registers. Curiously, the Status Word is not shown here even though it seems to be a programmer-accessible resource.

• O and F flags are shown in two different bit positions in two different registers. This seems important but unexplained. Seems like these two bits should be documented as part of the Status Word as was done with the Intel 8080.

• "Bits within the word are numbered from most significant bit (bit 11) to least significant bit (bit 0)." The numbering in the register infobox seems to conflict with this.

• It is difficult to associate the instruction formats with their associated instructions. Consider placing relevant instructions under the format fields as was done in the PDP-8 and PDP-11 articles.

• The BASC-12 examples go largely uncommented. One should assume that every instruction is foreign to the reader.

• It may be better to introduce the instruction set before discussing programming examples.

• It is unexplained how the ND812 can address 16K of memory.

• Input/output devices should go toward the end of the article as they are only "peripherally" associated with the ND812. RastaKins (talk) 16:54, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]