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From: jsweedle@mipos2.intel.com (Jonathan Sweedler)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: MIPS, Compaq and Microsoft in bed - NYT story
Message-ID: <2445@inews.intel.com>
Date: 11 Feb 91 21:41:14 GMT
References: <29920@usc> <45758@mips.mips.COM>
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Reply-To: jsweedle@mipos2.intel.com (Jonathan Sweedler)
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In-reply-to: cprice@mips.COM (Charlie Price)

In article <45758@mips.mips.COM>, cprice@mips (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.

The x87 architecture implements 80-bit arithmetic.  It also allows the
storing and loading of 80-bit FP numbers.
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|Jonathan Sweedler          Microprocessor Design                  Intel Corp.|
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