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. -j -- Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y @ K R E I B I.C H > "Intelligence is like underwear: it is important that you have it, but showing it to the wrong people has the tendency to make them feel uncomfortable." -- Angela Johnson
