Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: RISC v. CISC --more misconceptions
Message-ID: <1988Nov4.194026.22806@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <156@gloom.UUCP> <18931@apple.Apple.COM> <40@sopwith.UUCP> <19762@apple.Apple.COM> <1002@l.cc.purdue.edu> <75772@sun.uucp>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 88 19:40:26 GMT

In article <75772@sun.uucp> khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering) writes:
>... I have not done a head count, but many machines
>have sqrt (8087, 6888x, vax fpa, ibm fpa, univac).

In fact, if I recall correctly, you cannot have an IEEE-conforming
floating-point implementation without it.
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