Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!amdahl!pyramid!voder!apple!baum
From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: IBM Stretch rounding modes
Message-ID: <14659@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 88 17:58:05 GMT
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <1988Jul22.162623.5353@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Let us not forget that IBM's Stretch machine (the 7030, late 50s) had a bit
>which told the floating-point processor whether to round correctly or
>randomly.

I don't think that the "noisy" floating point mode rounded randomly. I think
it rounded in the opposite direction that the normal rounding did.

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