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ka1axy said...
Not really -- the CDC Cyber we had at college had hardware floating point multiply and divide, and this was 1974. It was just expensive in terms of logic. If you cold afford the logic, you could have it.
Even the PDP-8 (1965) had multiply and divide:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8#Basic_instructions
Mar 25, 2020, 8:39:40 AM