26 Jan
2002
26 Jan
'02
3:20 a.m.
"Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" wrote:
How about the 1620? CADET (Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try)
Nope It does add and multiply, not much else however. Slow core memory
and serial processing did not make for a fast machine. Add 160 us +
80*D'
us. Mult 560 us + 40*D' us + 168*D'*D" us. Most of the instructions are
data transfer and I/O conversion and I/O instructions.
--
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
You're not gonna impress anyone on this list with that candy-pants
quiche-eating system. You can start to get our attention by get a
computer that weighs more than you. Or barring that, we'll respect
you more if your system doesn't have floating point instructions,
or an integer divide, or even an integer multiply.
You mean like a 'cheap
model' IBM System 360. The cheaper ones were
rumored to handle multiply operations in software (ick!). Interesting,