Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!hamblin.math.byu.edu!news From: smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT Mathematica Bug Message-ID: Date: 5 Mar 91 17:58:22 GMT References: <1991Mar4.035543.19802@wam.umd.edu> <13048@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Mar5.183930.1701@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: news@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Usenet News) Distribution: na Organization: Brigham Young University Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: finn@theory.tn.cornell.edu's message of Tue, 5 Mar 1991 18:39:30 GMT finn@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Lee Samuel Finn)writes: >As a second note, I have compiled and (attempted) to run the Cody & Waite >elementary functions test suite on the NeXT '040 cube. These are FORTRAN >programs that test elementary functions in single and double precision >against identities, special values, and in some cases coded approximations >in various argument ranges. I compiled these puppies with both f2c/cc and >Absoft FORTRAN, and found quite a few of them would toast my cube so bad >that I had to yank the power cord: I couldn't get too the monitor, the power >key wouldn't respond, the mouse and keyboard were dead --- life, as we know >it, was extinguished in a flash of bits. Damn! -- EMail: smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu or uunet!hamblin.math.byu.edu!smithw SMail: Math Dept. -- 314 TMCB; BYU; Provo, UT 84602 (USA) NeXTmail: smithw@mathnx.math.byu.edu Phone: +1 801 378 2061 FAX: +1 801 378 2800