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From: bruce@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Bruce Worden)
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Subject: Re: Here's a challenge for floating point lovers.
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Nobody (well, except maybe Seymour Cray, who has other constraints
>to think about) designs new machines using anything other than IEEE.

As I hear it, Seymour has little elves telling him what to do.  

>In general, despite [Doug Gwyn's] distaste for [IEEE's] complexity [ ... ]

Hmmm, interesting.  Do you suppose that Doug is actually an elf?

Disclaimer: No offense, Doug, just a joke.
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