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From: granroth@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: DECstation floating: VAX or IEEE?
Message-ID: <1990Jul10.152724.567@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu>
Date: 10 Jul 90 20:27:24 GMT
Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa
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Forgive me for posting this simple question to the net, but I'm sure
I'll get an answer far faster than going through the local sales rep.

Do the DEC/MIPS/RISC workstations use IEEE floating point or VAX floating
point internal representations?  I've been told that the DECstations use
low-byte-first as do the VAX systems, and I suspect that the floating
point is similar, but what is the underlying format?  And if they
use VAX floating point, does the software also do G and H floating, etc?

Thanks.

-Larry    Granroth@IowaSP.physics.UIowa.edu    IOWASP::GRANROTH