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From: grt@hocda.UUCP (G.TOMASEVICH)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: byte alignment
Message-ID: <420@hocda.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Apr-84 17:39:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 30 17:39:38 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 1-May-84 07:59:45 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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The description of the IBM STRETCH reminds me of the IBM 1620.  It represented
data as BCD characters (8, 4, 2, 1, flag, check bits).  Numbers had a flag
bit at one end to mark the field.  The arithmetic precision was continuously
variable up to the capacity of the memory.  I once set up memory to multiply
two 10000-digit numbers; it took about a second.
	George Tomasevich, AT&T Bell Laboratories