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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,f9d071c8f9592f29
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner)
Subject: Re: Floating point emulation
Date: 1997/03/13
Message-ID: <5g9a75$6nn@top.mitre.org>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 225219211
References: <3326F958.35AC@aisvt.bfg.com>
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford Mass.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-03-13T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


Is this an arbitrary restriction by an ivory tower? Or have you 
costed out the cost of upgrading the chip to have a floating point
unit versus the cost of emulating floating point in software?