9 Sep
2006
9 Sep
'06
12:49 p.m.
woodelf wrote:
It still amazes me that a 4096 word computer
can have hardware aided floating point.
it's more (as I recall, dimly) for integer multiply and divide, which
(as I also recall, dimly) was pretty costly in software on the 8.
I seem to remember pawing through focal and basic fp routines and the
bit by bit work was very slow. EAE helped a lot.
I also remember using the 8/L's at Carleton College as password generators
and using them to crack TSS/8 passwords on their 8/I :-) early distributed
computing :-)
-brad