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		mikeash on March 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JSLinux rewritten to be human readable, deobfuscat... Thanks for the links. And, holy crap is PC hardware bizarre.

Someone on March 19, 2013 [–]

BCD isn't _that_ bizarre. Many architectures had and have instructions for BCD arithmetic:

x86: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_BCD_opcode

68k: http://meseec.ce.rit.edu/eecc250-winter99/250-1-20-2000.pdf

6502: http://www.6502.org/users/dieter/bcd/bcd_0.htm

6800: http://fundamentals-digital-electronics.blogspot.com/2010/09...

Several others, such as Power6 and Sparc64: http://speleotrove.com/decimal/ (also shows this is is both still useful today)

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