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From: cjosta@taux01.UUCP (Jonathan Sweedler)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC v. CISC --more misconceptions
Message-ID: <914@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 6 Nov 88 06:42:26 GMT
References: <156@gloom.UUCP> <18931@apple.Apple.COM> <40@sopwith.UUCP> <19762@apple.Apple.COM> <1002@l.cc.purdue.edu> <75772@sun.uucp> <1988Nov4.194026.22806@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: cjosta@taux01.UUCP (Jonathan Sweedler)
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In article <1988Nov4.194026.22806@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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.

Yes, but IEEE conformity may be accomplished in hardware or software.  A
*system* conforms to the IEEE standard, not necessarily the processor.
-- 
Jonathan Sweedler  ===  National Semiconductor Israel
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