On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Jay Kreibich <jay at kreibi.ch> wrote:

>
> On Oct 23, 2015, at 7:41 AM, Jean-Christophe Deschamps <jcd at antichoc.net>
> wrote:
>
> > AFAICT system 360 machines had BCD in microcode, just like any other
> basic datatype. Z is only the renamed survivor of 360/xx and 370/xxx
> "boxes".
> >
>
>
> The Motorola 680x0 chips (used in the original Macintosh systems) also had
> BCD instructions.
>

As did the Intel 80x86 & MOS 65xx chips (practically every 8-bit era
computer from Apple, Atari, Commodore).


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