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From: allen@basalt.uucp (Allen Akin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DECstation floating: VAX or IEEE?
Message-ID: <1990Jul11.005547.27430@wrl.dec.com>
Date: 11 Jul 90 00:55:47 GMT
References: <1990Jul10.152724.567@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu>
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In article <1990Jul10.152724.567@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu> granroth@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu writes:
>...
>Do the DEC/MIPS/RISC workstations use IEEE floating point or VAX floating
>point internal representations?

The MIPS-based DECstations use IEEE floating-point and little-endian byte
ordering.  This makes them completely data-format compatible with the
Intel x86 family of processors, which may be interesting if you're
attempting to share data with PCs.

Allen