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I think he should just use PDP8 ISA, just 6 instructions, even stupid people can manage that much.

Notch's original intention was to implement a real CPU like the 6502, but he decided to create a CPU optimized for software emulation instead.

The PDP-8 was designed to be inexpensive to implement with the hardware available at the time. It would not be an ideal choice for this purpose.