In article <cacutkuhhx6hrpxka9dsppzmk1psr0bgpqmcxokkaxzxa6ga...@mail.gmail.com>, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually thinking some more about it, why would BCD floating point code > be more compact even in ROM?
I haven't really looked, but the 8085 might be at nearly as efficient at BCD as pure binary. Also, the M100 was the "Micro Executive WorkStation", and as a "business machine" it was marketed at people more interested in having money values add up properly (which BCD is good at) than having small/fast ROM. And those posits sounded like they'd be complicated to implement. I'm sure not going to do a posit lib for 8080. -- Willard Goosey [email protected] Socorro, New Mexico, USA I search my heart and find Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night. --Robert E. Howard
