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From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: ANSI X3J14 TC Feedback
Summary: And Now For Something Completely Different
Keywords: ANSI, 83, standard, division, floored, one's, complement
Message-ID: <12587@well.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 89 05:25:58 GMT
Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Wil Baden of the X3J14 Technical Committee responds:
 
Tue Jul 04, 1989
W.BADEN1 [Wil]               at 19:28 PDT
 
To Jack Woehr, the Great TeleCommunicator.

What you are doing is great.  I will be monitoring this topic daily until  I
go to the next ANSI meeting.  If you just post stuff here everybody can see.

Pass on my thanks to everyone who has contributed.

Before I saw your latest posting I was prepared to propose that it is better
to break hearts than to break code. I had been told that Cray One was 1's
complement but had heard that recent and new Cray's might be 2's complement. 
If the latest Cray is 2's complement that settles it for me.  If in 20 years
Univac and CDC have gotten along without Forth they can suffer a little
longer.

The reward for doing a good job is another job.  What do the TeleFolks think
about floored division?  I think that its prescription was irresponsible.


Thanks for the great work. Wil.
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	So what does the USENET Forth Community want to tell the
ANSI X3J14 Technical Committee about FLOORED DIVISION?

	The 83-STANDARD mandated division floored to negative
infinity. Great for rotary motion, kinda funky for Certified
Public Accountants. ( I'm in rotary motion, I *like* floored!)

Replies to the TC by mail or to well!jax@lll-winken.arpa ... all
replies will be posted for the perusal of Forth Interest Group
members and the ANSI X3J14 TC as indicated above in Wil Baden's
message.

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