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From: pshen@atrp.mit.edu (Paul Shen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: C compilers
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Date: 23 Jul 89 14:13:01 GMT
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ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:

>In article <19968@louie.udel.EDU> Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (marty) writes:
>>Is floating point going to be included in future Minix releases?  

>If enough people express an interest, I'll look into it for V2.0.  What's
>wrong with the numbers between 0 and 255?  They are all nice numbers.

Well, those numbers between 0 and 1 are more useful. I think it is a
good idea to include the floating point in the future releases too.

					Paul



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