DEC Rainbow was DEC VT100AA for good home
It was true of a fair bit of software for the IBM PC, too, and led to an entertaining arms race. Early on I recall using a utility called "Copy2PC", which could break some simple copy-protection schemes (alas, I've forgotten the details), but at some point we upgraded to a great hacking utility called Disk Mechanic.
Disk Mechanic was written in BASICA, but it was quite sophisticated for the time, offering both a point-and-pray menu interface and a bunch of low-level settings for the really tough or obscure stuff. Often its analyze-and-copy single-step procedure would suffice, but in other cases you had to go into advanced menus and set various parameters. The documentation included a bundle of cheat sheets for various popular packages, which walked you through the special settings.
Some of the cheat sheets actually had you exit from the program to the BASICA interpreter, POKE various values into memory, and then restart it. Now *that* was configurable software. Good stuff.
Ah, this is interesting. Since the Newton-Raphson iteration for square roots involves repeated divisions, and an SRT...
That is part of it. If you go back to CACM about 1988 or so plus or minus...
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