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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Quadruple-Precision Floating Point
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Date: 1 Jan 89 15:30:00 GMT
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(Story about 128bit instructions, emulation, phone calls, and smileys).

How about it? I would have taken a count of emulated instructions
and stored it in a disk file. Does the notorious MicroVax do this? 
Does MIPS? Does anybody? It seems like a great idea.