23 Sep
2004
23 Sep
'04
10:03 a.m.
I've always wondered what systems/processors
(other than IBM mainframes)
that had hardware decimal arithmetic support. I don't mean 'decimal
adjust' instructions, I'm talking about full
add/subtract/multiply/divide/etc. The only other one I know of is the
PDP11/44 CIS option supported packed decimal 'strings'. Didn't some VAXen
do so as well?
-tony