Decimal V Binary??

Tony Duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Thu Sep 23 17:03:49 CDT 2004


> 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

PDP11/44 CIS option supported packed decimal 'strings'. Didn't some VAXen 
do so as well?

-tony



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