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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 1981
Filed:
Jan. 02, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard T Flynn, Peoria, AZ (US);
Jerry L Kindell, Glendale, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell Information Systems Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364200 ; 364778 ;
Abstract
In a microprogrammed data processing system, the throughput of the system is increased during the processing of decimal numeric instructions by apparatus which, in response to a microword indicating that the result of the decimal numeric calculation is a short operand, that is, a predetermined number of words or less, and in accordance with an instruction descriptor, generates a count of the number of words of the resultant operand the decimal unit will transfer to memory.