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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: MIPS, Compaq and Microsoft in bed - NYT story
Message-ID: <49034@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 91 19:07:17 GMT
References: <29920@usc> <45758@mips.mips.COM>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <45758@mips.mips.COM> cprice@mips.COM (Charlie Price) writes:
>By the way, even if someone implements 80-bit FP (we don't),
>nobody I know of *stores* 80 bits in memory or on disk.

Apple does. Its SANE numeric package is 80-bits throughout. The numbers
probably get stored as 96 bits, but I don't think that was the thrust of
you observation.


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