22 Sep
2004
22 Sep
'04
11:40 p.m.
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 22:08, William Donzelli wrote:
I've always wondered what systems/processors (other than IBM mainframes)
that had hardware decimal arithmetic support. I don't mean 'decimal
adjust' instructions, I'm talking about full
add/subtract/multiply/divide/etc. The only other one I know of is the
Wang VS, which came standard with support for 'packed decimal' data, and
even floating-point decimal. The Wang VS instruction set was very
similar to the IBM 360/370, even the packed decimal data format was the
same.
Jim
There are SOME
people (I am NOT one) who actually feel that
DECIMAL is the right way to go in computers!
If the computers are doing my bank statements, then yes, I am one of them.