[Coco] CoCo gcc project

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Fri Oct 31 22:20:00 EST 2003


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <KnudsenMJ at aol.com>


> In a message dated 10/31/03 3:16:59 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> jdaggett at gate.net writes:
>
> > I wished the 6809 had a DIV instruction!!!! Some base code to
implement
> what the
> >  HC11 FDIV and IDIV instructions would be nice. Then you have 16
bit by 16
> > bit divide.
>
> To merge with another thread, the Star Wars arcade game used a 6809
and had
> an outboard hardware divide board, built of 7400-series TTL ICs.
Don't recall
> how many clocks it took.

ISTR that you could buy a math library in a rom chip for some of
these, 6800 or 6809 IIRC. But I know of no FPU for them.

Neil






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