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From: daryl@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Daryl Odnert)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC integer multiply/divide (was Re: Snake)
Message-ID: <45760008@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com>
Date: 1 Apr 91 18:14:01 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Guy Harris writes:
> I saw something that indicated that integer multiply and divide
> instructions have been added to HP-PA, and that the chips in the new
> machine, I think, implement them.

HP's PA-RISC 1.1 architecture does include an unsigned integer multiply
instruction that operates on floating-point register operands.  However,
it does not include any integer division instructions.

Daryl Odnert
Hewlett-Packard
California Language Lab
Cupertiono, California