PDP-6 Programming Examples

This manual provides a collection of programming examples for the PDP-6 Type 166 Processor, illustrating both its arithmetic and logical capabilities. The examples utilize instruction mnemonics from the MACRO-6 assembler. Some examples include design-estimated execution times, conservatively calculated without considering advanced optimizations like memory overlapping. The document highlights strategies for performance improvement, such as moving frequently iterated short programs to fast memory, demonstrated in examples like "Character Manipulation" and "Two-Bit Testing." It also showcases the use of recursion to shorten programs, exemplified by "Any Radix Print." The manual contains 16 distinct programming examples covering various topics from integer and floating-point arithmetic to matrix inversion, character manipulation, and polynomial evaluation.