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From: bga@raspail.UUCP (Bruce Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: A simple question on RISC
Summary: 6600 did too have integer multiply
Message-ID: <1021@raspail.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 88 04:39:41 GMT
References: <76083@sun.uucp> <559@dms.UUCP>
Organization: Control Data Corporation, Arden Hills, MN
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In article <559@dms.UUCP>, albaugh@dms.UUCP (Mike Albaugh) writes:
> 	Oh, yeah, lack of Integer Mul & div was a bit of a pain, The
> "Return Jump" a kluge (although a common one at the time), and One's
> complement not exactly my cup of tea, so I don't maintain that the
> 6600 was perfect, but considering the competition at the time...
> 

The 6600 did have integer multiply (although the PP's did not).  I'm curious,
though, are the Cybers the only machine around that simulate integer divide
by doing a converting to floating point, floating point divide, normalize,
and convert back to integer?