Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software
>   From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com>
>   Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:17:10 -0800 (PST)
>     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
>Hi
> I still don't fully understand the decimal fuctions
>of the 4004. It has similar problems with addition and
>subtraction. It, of course, doesn't have to deal with
>a half carry, being only 4 bits.
>Dwight


The 4004 is as they say a "whole nother animal".  The decimal
arithmetic is actually familiar theme amoung the 4bit(datapath) 
class of machines TMS1000, NEC uCOM4 and uCOM75, and others 
dealing with decimal quantities is both easier (no conversions)
and allows the data areas in memory to be organized or thought
of as long registers of decimal digits.  Of course the Carry
has to reflect numeric overflows greater than 9d instead of Fh.


Allison