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From: blickstein@orphan.DEC (Dave Blickstein)
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Subject: VAX  floating point formats - middle endian
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Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 10:48:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  4 10:48:47 1984
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The VAX floating point format is done that way for compatability with 
the PDP-11 format.  That is, VAX floating point formats are identical to
to the PDP-11 formats.

	db

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