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From: bcase@cup.portal.com (Brian bcase Case)
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Subject: Re: What kinds of problems...
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Date: 20 Mar 89 09:28:30 GMT
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>What kinds of simulations are these?

Instruction set simulators.

>Would there be any commercial interest in a really fast integer box
>that had only fair floating pt performance?

I don't want this to sound sarcastic, but I think they're called
Personal Computers.  And sometimes the floating-point perfomance
bairly qualifies as fair!

Let me cast my vote for the screamin'est integer box possible (I put
in my two cents with the architecture of the 29000).