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From: sambo@ukma.UUCP (Father of micro-ln)
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Subject: Looking for information on floating-point chips
Message-ID: <4135@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Aug-86 02:27:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  1 02:27:52 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Aug-86 09:18:42 EDT
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences, Lexington KY
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Keywords: IEEE standard 754

I am not sure if this is the proper place to post this.  If not, perhaps
someone could enlighten me.

For my thesis I have designed a language to fully support the IEEE standard
754-1985 for binary floating-point arithmetic.  I would like to devote some
space on a discussion of how feasible it is to implement compilers for this
language.  Therefore, I need some information on the instruction set (pre-
ferably not just a list thereof) and the architecture of some of the most
popular chips implementing this standard.  I suppose this means the Intel
8087, the Motorola 68881, the Weitek 1164/1165, whatever National Semicon-
ductor has, and others.  I know all about the 8087, having programmed in
assembly language for it, and I know about AT&T's 32106(?) MAU.  What would
be the best way to get information on the other chips?  (Perhaps some addres-
ses would be nice.)  Also, I would like to get some information on Apple's
MacIntosh ROM routines as well, since the standard does not have to be imple-
mented in hardware.

Thank you in advance.
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Samuel A. Figueroa, Dept. of CS, Univ. of KY, Lexington, KY  40506-0027
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