In <a30a9f528e618748a8ef5199e80c4a1c02882...@wkpp1infmb03.cbsh.com>, on
04/20/2010
at 07:48 AM, "Kelman, Tom" <thomas.kel...@commercebank.com> said:
>It didn't have the normal
>addition/multiplication registers of the 360.
The relevant difference wasn't the registers; it was the ALU. BTW, the RCA
301 also used table lookup for addition.
>Instead it did all of it's addition and multiplication via table
>lookup from tables it kept on the rotating disk.
Core, initially loaded from cards, at least on smaller machines.
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