Load from Memory LOAD Immed. Unconditional Branch JUMP Immed. 0000 if AC PC Branch if Positive JPOS Immed. Procedure Call CALL Immed. Our machine lacks any floating point operations at this point.
Any useful computer needs floating point operations.
Therefore, to empower our machine with floating point capabilities you need to write two assembly language subroutines. Floating Point Addition. You may ignore overflow and underflow errors in these routines. The second word will contain 15 significand bits. The MSB is not used in the representation of normalized numbers.