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From: bs@faron.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman)
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Subject: Re: Floating Point Chip Architecture
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Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 07:18:29 EST
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> The following abstract is for an article to be posted to net.arch
> in a few days.  I am posting the abstract to notify persons who may
> be interested but don't subscribe to net.arch.
> 
> 
>                Extending Weitek Architecture
> 
> 
>                         David Hough
> 
> 
> 
>                           ABSTRACT
>  
>           This paper contains personal opinions of  the
>      author which should not be assumed to be the posi-
>      tion of any organization.  The Motorola 68881  and
>      Weitek  1164/1165 chips have become popular float-
>      ing point implementations and represent  different
>      decisions  about performance, complexity, and con-
>      formance to the IEEE standard. Future chip sets in
>      the  Weitek  style  should incorporate some of the
>      ideas that shaped the 68881.

Listen, moron. The title of this newsgroup is net.math. Please keep
this sort of nonsense in its proper newsgroup!!!. 

Bob Silverman   (they call me Mr. 9)