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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 1981
Filed:
Nov. 08, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas F Joyce, Burlington, MA (US);
Richard A LeMay, Carlisle, MA (US);
William E Woods, Natick, MA (US);
Richard P Brown, Acton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell Information Systems Inc., Waltham, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364748 ;
Abstract
The performance of a scientific ADD instruction is improved by storing the mantissas of both operands in each of two random access memories, selecting the mantissa with the smaller exponent, shifting that mantissa and performing the ADD operation of adding the mantissas in one machine cycle.