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From: raymond@twinkies.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
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Subject: Re: Shouldn't ANSI have provided nonvolatile instead of volatile?
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Date: 12 Feb 90 23:29:48 GMT
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In article <17910@rpp386.cactus.org> woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:
>FIXED  i.e. fixed point math.  This type would deal with chars,ints, longs
>and quads.  There would be an assumed binary point in the middle of the
>data. ...

Can you say PL/I?  I knew you could...

 raymond@math.berkeley.edu         mathematician by training, hacker by choice