Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!occrsh!uokmax!munnari.oz.au!metro!wolfen!hls0!geoff From: geoff@hls0.hls.oz (Geoff Bull) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Why FP at all? (was: Re: Killer Micro II) Message-ID: <932@hls0.hls.oz> Date: 11 Sep 90 22:48:11 GMT References: <14900015@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> Reply-To: geoff@hls0.highland.oz.au (Geoff Bull) Organization: Highland Logic Pty. Ltd. , Moss Vale NSW, Australia. Lines: 12 In article <14900015@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> sritacco@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Steve Ritacco) writes: >Very true, who need IEEE format anyway. Give me a processor capable of IEEE format is one of the better things that has happened to the industry. You seem to have forgotten the bad old days when numerical programming was a black art, and programs would give different answers on different machines. -- Geoff Bull (Senior Engineer) Phone : (+61 48) 68 3490 Highland Logic Pty. Ltd. Fax : (+61 48) 68 3474 348-354 Argyle St ACSnet : geoff@hls0.hls.oz.au Moss Vale, 2577, AUSTRALIA