30 Sep
2026
30 Sep
'26
2:51 a.m.
Paul Koning wrote:
The Motorola 68000 has the instructions ABCD, NBCD, and SBCD for
decimal arithmetic.
... Like what
machines other than IBM had binary and decimal computing?
If you meant "had
machine instructions both for decimal and for binary
arithmetic", the answer includes the PDP-11 and VAX, and I think the
Intel 4004 had instructions used as building blocks in decimal
arithmetic.