> The hardware multiply isn't very helpful if you want to do more than 8bit
> multiplications, as it requires that you write everything the standard way
> instead of utilising the multiply function of the chip.

This is not true. You can use the hardware multiply for larger arguments.
Just imaging doing multiplication in base 256 and you'll see what I mean.

(hint: it will take 4 MUL instrucftions (plus some other instructions) to do
16 x 16 multiply. In general, for  A-bits x B-bits multiply, where A and B
are multiples of 8, you will need (A/8)*(B/8) MUL instructions.)

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

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