hardware multiply/divide functionality in CPUs

Chuck Guzis wrote: Not true, at least going by my conversations with distributors at the time. They were sold through normal commercial distribution, to anyone willing to purchase the minimum order quantity, which was around 30 parts if memory serves. Since they were rather expensive parts, that didn't include me. Since the 9450 implemented the MIL-STD-1750A architecture, obviously the main customers were defense contractors and their subcontractors, but a friend who worked for a commercial avionics company said that they used it in some non-defense products as well. That suggests that the 9450 pricing was sufficiently reasonable that if you had a 1750A codebase that you wanted to use in a commercial product, it was viable to use the 9450. The Fairchild Nova-compatible parts might have seen more non-military use than the 9450, but I don't have even anecdotal evidence of that. Like the Fairchild parts, the SBP9900 was sold through distribution. It appeared in TI's OEM price list, though I don't recall the price.