“Until now, calculations involving decimal numbers with floating decimal points were done using software. The built-in decimal floating point capability gives tremendous advantage to enterprises running complex tax, financial and ERP programs”.

I think that’s a little marketing there.

Modern processors have something built into them called an ‘ALU’ Arithmetic Logic Unit which does both integer & floating point calculations, using either the IBM or IEEE algorithms.

Intel came out with the Math Co which has worked side by side with their line of Pentium cpus.

Even though IBM started the RISC architecture, it doesn’t mention it being CISC or RISC

I was trying to find some bench tests to see how this thing compares to the Sun Ultra Sparc line of cpu’s.