7 Mar
2011
7 Mar
'11
2:11 p.m.
In article <4D7554BF.5090201 at gmail.com>,
Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> writes:
... or mid-late '70s and early '80s CPUs, to
be more specific. Can anyone
furnish me with a better knowledge as to which processors of that kind of time
period had hardware multiplication and division support?
Integer or floating-point?
x86 had hardware floating-point divide/multiply fairly early with the
80x87 FPU chips (8087, 80287, 80387, 80487, then 486DX2 had the FPU on
the CPU, IIRC).
The 68K line of processors also had companion FPU chips until they got
an FPU implemented on-chip.
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