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Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:32:55 PST8
From:	"Bob" <tt336a5u02@sneakemail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Ongoing

** Reply to message from "Gregory W. Smith gsmith@well.com" on Thu, 20 Jan 2005
10:05:58 PST8

> And what about the third set that you seem to forget: the
> "implementation set".

You don't need hardware to implement any feature.

> For a long time, very few people bought
> machines that did decimal arithmetic. I know that my fist OS/2
> machine did not have decimal arithmetic--binary only.

All of the INTEL chips (8080, 186, 286, and 386) that I have written assembler
programs for had decimal hardware.

--
Robert Blair

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