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From: bron@olympus.SGI.COM (Bron C. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RPM-40 microprocessor @ 40 MHz; dat
Message-ID: <12076@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 3 Mar 88 21:34:47 GMT
References: <1642@mips.mips.COM> <28200116@ccvaxa>
Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA
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Summary: Integer multiply on a RISC (Cray)

In article <28200116@ccvaxa>, aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
> If your customers spend time doing multiplies or divides, then your RISC
> designer will put them in. Cray is the only "RISCy" machine that is widely
> known with multiply that springs to mind, though. Same for floating point.

FYI, The Cray XMP machines do NOT have hardware support for a general
integer (64bit) multiply.  They can do address length (24bit) integer
multiplies.  It has no hardware for integer divide (of any length).
If you need these operations, you have to convert to floating point.
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