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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: multiplying with normal size result
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 11:53:10 EDT
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> I complained about this a few years ago in Computer Architecture News
> in a paper reviewing the 68000.  Surprise, surprise, Motorola reads CAN
> and in the 68020 they fixed it.  Both 32x32->32 and 32x32->64 are there.

Just to keep the scales balanced, National did this one (and the analogous
cases for division) right the first time.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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