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by AnimalMuppet 560 days ago
Ah, the 418! That's something I haven't heard about in a while.

My dad worked for Sperry Univac. He had a laminated list of 418 assembler instructions, with assembler mnemonics, and time of execution. I seem to recall 4 microseconds for addition and 6 for multiplication, but it's been a while since I saw it...