hardware multiply/divide functionality in CPUs

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Tue Mar 8 19:00:43 CST 2011


On 8 Mar 2011 at 16:53, Brent Hilpert wrote:

> I wonder if you have a later printing of Volume II than I have here. I
> do see near the beginning it states the 9440 implements only 'the LCD
> of Nova features', but on page 17-20 in the instruction table there
> are X's for the M/D instructions in the 9440 column. On page 17-15 it
> says X in the column indicates the instruction is present. The stack
> operations listed next have no X, indicating they are missing on the
> 9440.

I'm working from the June, 1977 edition. In this one, it's on page 17-
44 and there are no "x" marks in the 9440 column for MPY and DIV.

--Chuck




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