Xref: utzoo comp.arch:17625 comp.databases:6770 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.databases Subject: Re: Extremely Fast Filesystems Keywords: addressing,fractions,floating-point,caches Message-ID: <9325VTE@ggpc2.ferranti.com> Date: 8 Aug 90 12:36:22 GMT References: <13667@cbmvax.commodore.com> <13578@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <1990Aug8.010203.18560@rice.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 12 In article <1990Aug8.010203.18560@rice.edu> cliffc@sicilia.rice.edu (Cliff Click) writes: > In article rbw00@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com ( 213 Richard Wilmot) writes: > >So when will I see fractional addressing? When someone invents a floating point unit that maps to the real number system. > Humm... infinite precision fractional addressing... isn't this equivalent to > using "bignums"? Or Ted Nelson's "Tumblers"? "Any problem in programming can be solved with another level of indirection" -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`