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From: cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Floating point stack
Summary: Yes but...does the standard address...
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Date: 6 Dec 90 22:35:52 GMT
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In article <9012061505.AA20237@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM writes:
> Personally, I don't think it's very likely that we will see a
> commercially Forth chip with integrated floating point any time
> in the near future.  It would be nice, but I wouldn't bet on
> it happening.  Doing floating point right in hardware is not
> as easy as building an integer processor, and I just don't see
> where the investment capital is going to come from.
> 
> Mitch Bradley, wmb@Eng.Sun.COM

Yes but does the standard address a device independent way of
interfacing with a FP chip.

I'd like that functionality so my PCx FORTH could use 
"in a standard way" say an 8087, etc.

--Clyde