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From: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain)
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Subject: Re: RISC integer multiply/divide (was Re: Snake)
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Date: 8 Apr 91 15:57:34 GMT
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dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>kym@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell) writes:
> > use it for everything :-). Instructures like multiply-and-add, 
> > multiply-shift-and-add are therefore not unheard of. (I have in mind ...
> > TI 320 series, I presume those 6000 thingies can do similar things,
>TI 320, yes, RS6000, no.

The rest of this article is to deep for my current mood, however,
if I understand the above correctly, you are wrong.  IBM goes to
great pains to brag about the multiply-and-add instruction.

Paul Chamberlain | I do NOT speak for IBM.          IBM VNET: PAULCC AT AUSTIN
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