[net.arch] Multiplication

srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) (07/28/85)

In article <5825@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:

>My (admittedly dim) memory
>of the Z8000 is that its multiply instructions yield double-width results.

Since I have a copy of "Programming the Z8000" by Richard Mateosian close at
hand, I can tell you that the Z8000 has 16x16 -> 32  and  32x32 -> 64 bit
multiplies and the corresponding divides.  I believe that the Z80000 will
have all the combinations you might want.  (Perhaps I should say "has"
rather than "will have", since I saw a Z80000 wafer at NCC.)
-- 
Richard Mateosian
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