From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1d92f00996f9e887 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Subject: Re: An interesting quote on Java and C++ Date: 1997/10/09 Message-ID: <343D12BE.62@gsg.eds.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 279195861 References: <97100810022586@psavax.pwfl.com> Organization: EDS MS Reply-To: nospam@gsg.eds.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-10-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96 wrote: > > Granted, this isn't a big deal in terms of implementation > complexity. There may be better examples. But it seems there's a > real dearth of one's compliment architectures out there for which > anyone has a serious interest in porting Ada. Is there any > technical advantage to one's compliment? One's complement has the advantage that the arithmetic and logical not operations are the same. Also, I understand that you can save a few gates in the adder by using one's complement. But I would be astounded if anyone designed a new architecure using one's complement. As a practical matter, one's complement will only exist in legacy Univac equipment and the Unisys replacements. > MDC -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Senior Software SE The values in from and reply-to are for the benefit of spammers: reply to domain eds.com, user msustys1.smetz or to domain gsg.eds.com, user smetz. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org