11 Oct
2006
11 Oct
'06
12:31 p.m.
On 10/11/2006 at 1:08 PM woodelf wrote:
Not really. IBM has patented a way of packing 2
decimal
digits into 7 binary bits.Of course more hardware is needed
but that is patented too.
Ah, so 00-63 hex is now proprietary. Better check my old code for
violations...
I think the thing that killed BCD computers is thae
lack of
BCD memory addressing.
You never used a 1620?
Cheers,
Chuck