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From: davidsen@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: load average on Xenix
Message-ID: <1089@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 3 Jul 89 19:25:58 GMT
References: <713@sysco>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <713@sysco> abs@sco.COM (Amy Snader) writes:
| The three numbers in avenrun are the 1, 5, and 15 minute load
| averages.  The load average figures are updated every 5 seconds. 
| These three shorts are being used
| as pseudo-floating point numbers, with 8 bits to the left of the
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| decimal point, 8 bits to the right.

Excuse me? They are called fixed-point numbers, and are in no way
related to floating point, pseudo or otherwise.
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	- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdgw1.uucp)
	GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8, KW-C206; Schenectady NY 12345