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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Divide in 1 cycle (was Re: standard extensions)
Message-ID: <49722@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 91 20:22:27 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.021435.11296@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <1991Feb27.183718.638@jetsun.weitek.COM> <1991Feb28.010339.20055@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <1991Feb28.010339.20055@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> kym@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell) writes:
>In article <1991Feb27.183718.638@jetsun.weitek.COM> weaver@jetsun.WEITEK.COM (Michael Weaver) writes:
>>Does anyone know of a pipelined divider that gives a result every cycle?
>
>I've read of at least one real product. No ref -- memory fault.

I believe that HP had a chip that was a purely combinatorial divider.
I don't remember what system it was shipped with, though, and I don't think
it was IEEE conforming

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