11 Oct
2006
11 Oct
'06
12:20 p.m.
I might be out of my mind (and mistaken too!), but I'm pretty sure that
POWER systems have always been BCD-enabled. At least since POWER2.
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On 10/10/2006
at 5:59 PM Cameron Kaiser wrote:
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Of course it's not decimal mode the way, say,
a 6502 would do it but
it's
interesting to see a major architecture bring back
non-binary-based
operations (in this case base 10 calculations to avoid precision
difficulties).
I don't understand what the hubbub is about.
Can anyone explain for
me?
Has somebody invented Binary Coded Decimal?