On 8/22/2017 5:16 PM, Paul Nance wrote: > Turbo Pascal also had a BCD unit. Well, no, there was no unit, rather a version of Turbo Pascal 3.0x had a version that natively used BCD math for "reals" instead of the 6byte REAL type, just as there was a x87 version that used hardware x87 FP (IEEE754) floats instead of software emulated ones. That was at a time when the x87 processors where an addon to the basic CPU (8087 for the 8086/8088/80188, 80187 for the 808186, 80287 for 80286, 80387 for the 80386).
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