11 Oct
2006
11 Oct
'06
12:08 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
Has somebody invented Binary Coded Decimal?
Not
really. IBM has patented a way of packing 2 decimal
digits into 7 binary bits.Of course more hardware is needed
but that is patented too.
I think the thing that killed BCD computers is thae lack of
BCD memory addressing.