hardware multiply/divide functionality in CPUs

[Ian King]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
> bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tony Duell
> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 2:20 PM
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: hardware multiply/divide functionality in CPUs
> 
> What do you mean by 'hardware' multiply and divide? A number of
> machines,
> I suspect the 6809 is amongst them, had no particualrl hardware for
> multiply or divide, but they did have multiply and maybe divide
> instrucitons in the instruction setc. These instrucitons were
> implemented
> by microcode using the normal registers and ALU. Does that count?
> 

The 6809 was not microcoded.  -- Ian