Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:47794 rec.games.video:5251 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!yale!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,rec.games.video Subject: Re: The Lynx CPU (???) (Was:Re: Developing for the Lynx) Message-ID: Date: 18 Jan 90 14:15:59 GMT References: <8581@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> <759@cs.wmich.edu> <7243@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <4952@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Distribution: usa Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 14 In-reply-to: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com's message of 18 Jan 90 05:41:45 GMT >>>>> On 18 Jan 90 05:41:45 GMT, karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) said: karl> A MULTIPLY INSTRUCTION?? PSHAW. On the 6502 you will do it with eight-bit karl> registers and single bit shifts. A 16 X 16->32 bit multiply in 6502 assembler karl> is *pages.* (It's ONE instruction on the 68000.) The Lynx has a hardware multiplier circuit. --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM Entry Systems Division -- Engineering