floating point

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1990Mar5.174628.9141 at ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> harish at ecebucolix.ncsu.edu (Harish P. Hiriyannaiah) writes:
>As an aside, what do netters feel about DEC's 64-bit format for floats vs the
>IEEE one ? I contend that the DEC format is superior...

Which DEC 64-bit format?  There are at least two... which brings us back
to how nice it is to have *one* standard, even if DEC doesn't like it.
Even DEC now sells IEEE-format floating-point hardware, in their Mips-based
machines.
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