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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 386 Clones [really: IEEE floating point & various approaches; long]
Message-ID: <2836@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 5 Nov 90 21:23:20 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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  While this discussion is interesting, I suspect that most of the FP
code in the world runs without exceptions, trapped, untrapped, defined
or anonymous. That's what they pay numerical analysts to insure.

  I think the IEEE behavior will come in the future, but I don't see a
huge demand for it. Partially because the big CPU users are usually
running on some box with non-iEEE math anyway.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
      The Twin Peaks Halloween costume: stark naked in a body bag