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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 386 Clones
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Date: 31 Oct 90 20:49:47 GMT
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In article <2816@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
...
 >                        Cray and Convex users
...
 >   At the time I looked at this (several years ago) there were a few
 > boards in this market, I'm not sure they were shipping, and I don't
 > believe they were IEEE.
...
The true Cray and Convex users do not care about IEEE.  Their machines do
not have IEEE conformant arithmetic; far from it.  They want results; fast.
They do not care about correctness.  :-)
--
dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik@cwi.nl