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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: Double length integer arithmetic
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- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <Bz5DIs.2uH@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Dec13.015133.18469@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <BzCCI2.4q8@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:43:36 GMT
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- In article <BzCCI2.4q8@apollo.hp.com> gardner_c@apollo.hp.com (Cal Gardner) writes:
- > BTW - the 1620 did all of its
- > arithmetic via table-lookup. The multiplication and
- > addition tables had to be loaded into the machine.
- > Memory to memory operations and the mode was decimal.
-
- Anyone got a technical manual on the 1620 (CADET)? I seem to be collecting
- stuff like that, so I might as well go whole hog and start a library.
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