Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: floating point
Message-ID: <1990Mar6.215640.6567@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2263@milton.acs.washington.edu> <1990Mar1.140829.17199@druid.uucp> <2353@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <1990Mar5.174628.9141@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 90 21:56:40 GMT

In article <1990Mar5.174628.9141@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> harish@ecebucolix.ncsu.edu (Harish P. Hiriyannaiah) writes:
>As an aside, what do netters feel about DEC's 64-bit format for floats vs the
>IEEE one ? I contend that the DEC format is superior...

Which DEC 64-bit format?  There are at least two... which brings us back
to how nice it is to have *one* standard, even if DEC doesn't like it.
Even DEC now sells IEEE-format floating-point hardware, in their Mips-based
machines.
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