Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!exodus-bb!khb From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: New SparcStation Message-ID: Date: 18 Dec 90 04:02:53 GMT References: <127198@linus.mitre.org> <1990Dec13.184127.23878@alzabo.uucp> <4350@cerberus.oakhill.UUCP> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun MegaSystems Lines: 23 In-reply-to: hunter@oakhill.UUCP's message of 18 Dec 90 01:08:07 GMT In article <4350@cerberus.oakhill.UUCP> hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales) writes: Is there any truth to the rumor that the CPU has a Peltier device (i.e. IceCap) to cool it? Not in mine. Looks very much like my old 4/65, unless you look closely. .....someone else Floating point unit: SPARC IEEE standard 764 754. The 64 was a typo introduced by the printers, or marketing, or someone else ;> To the best of my knowledge there isn't a IEEE 764 binary floating point standard with which to be compatible. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keith H. Bierman kbierman@Eng.Sun.COM | khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM SMI 2550 Garcia 12-33 | (415 336 2648) Mountain View, CA 94043