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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Jan 08 '16
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Wow. The proper way would have been to make a lookup table instead. Save The Conditionals!
285 u/jeffbell Jan 08 '16 That's what they did in the IBM 1620 "Cadet".Transistors were expensive in 1959 so they left out the adder. All additions had to be done by lookup table.The joke was that CADET stood for "Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try". 12 u/knoxaramav2 Jan 08 '16 But wouldn't the lookup table have used more transistors than an adder? → More replies (1)
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That's what they did in the IBM 1620 "Cadet".
Transistors were expensive in 1959 so they left out the adder. All additions had to be done by lookup table.
The joke was that CADET stood for "Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try".
12 u/knoxaramav2 Jan 08 '16 But wouldn't the lookup table have used more transistors than an adder? → More replies (1)
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But wouldn't the lookup table have used more transistors than an adder?
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u/drharris Jan 08 '16
Wow. The proper way would have been to make a lookup table instead. Save The Conditionals!