On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 12:00:47PM +0100, Martin Feeney wrote:
> On 29 Oct 99, at 10:01, Brian Foley wrote:
>> > Now all we need is an APL version, and perhaps one or two obscure
> > assembler versions. VAX assembler anyone? Cray assembler maybe?
>> VAX assembly: there's probably an opcode for it - there seems to be one
> for everything else.
Yup... You could probably do it with a clever combination of
POLY (evaluate polynomial), CRC (calculate cyclic reducancy check),
EDITPC (for formatting BCD numbers to strings, printf-style) and the BCD
instructions. Sick, sick, sick...
Gotta love CISC, though!
Later,
Kenn
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