Re: new instructions

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From: Alex Colvin
Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 12:17

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>Fixed point arithmetic is little used now because the hardware to support
>it reasonably well does not exist.  

Would anyone who works with DSPs comment on this?  They seem to be built for
fixed point and fractional arithmetic, with the ALU connected to the registers
through shifters.

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