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   On 31/12/2023 09:24, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
   > The Natural Philosopher  writes:   
   >> I think stdlib was all we got. String handling mainly. And possibly   
   >> floating point but on a 6809? Seriously?   
   >   
   > Sure, why not, it was routine on 8-bit micros. The Dragon 32 is an   
   > example that used the 6809 specifically.   
   >   
   This was later than that. we had 16 bit micros by then for that sort of   
   stuff. Actually in that job we had some sort of DSP chip to do floating   
   point on. You shoved the command in one  memory location and the numbers   
   in two others, and eventually it spat out the answers.   
      
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