23 Sep
2022
23 Sep
'22
9:49 p.m.
On 9/23/22 13:47, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
It was useful as a simple test of whether an applicant
had any
bit-twiddling experience. But, I couldn't think of practical application.
The 6600 implemented it (IIRC) as a tree of 8 bit adders. If you
haven't read Jim Thornton's "Design of a Computer--The CDC 6600", you
owe it to yourself to look it up:
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/CDC/cdc.6600.thornton.des…
--Chuck