FPUs for small computers (Was: What to download for a PDP-8)

[Chuck Guzis]

On 17 Oct 2007 at 12:09, Jim Battle wrote:

> Finally, I recall seeing an article where somebody took a pocket 
> calculator chip and essentially poked simulated keystrokes at it and 
> then decoded the LED driver output to determine the answer.  It was very 
> slow, though, so all it saved was the space of the floating point 
> library code.

I remember that one.  It may have been an early issue of Byte.  I 
also wondered at the time if any speed was gained over just running 
plain old x80 code.

Cheers,
Chuck