'Rithmetic? (was: Netscape (was Re: PayPal = payola?)

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Sat Jan 26 11:20:01 2002

"Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" wrote:
>
> > > You're not gonna impress anyone on this list with that candy-pants
> > > quiche-eating system. You can start to get our attention by get a
> > > computer that weighs more than you. Or barring that, we'll respect
> > > you more if your system doesn't have floating point instructions,
> > > or an integer divide, or even an integer multiply.
> > You mean like a 'cheap model' IBM System 360. The cheaper ones were
> > rumored to handle multiply operations in software (ick!). Interesting,
>
> How about the 1620? CADET (Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try)

Nope It does add and multiply, not much else however. Slow core memory
and serial processing did not make for a fast machine. Add 160 us +
80*D'
us. Mult 560 us + 40*D' us + 168*D'*D" us. Most of the instructions are
data transfer and I/O conversion and I/O instructions.

-- 
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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Received on Sat Jan 26 2002 - 11:20:01 GMT

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