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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: floating point problem
Date: 1997/03/18
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Date: 1997-03-18T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <332E255B.14EC@bix.com> Tom Moran <tmoran@bix.com> writes:

  >   How many years ago was that?  I used the validated Janus Ada 83
  > compiler compiling on a 286 and generating code for an 8088, both
  > without FPU.  That was at least several years ago.

   I think it was '89 or '90.  The contract award was protested (for
other reasons, whew!).  During the recompete the rules were changed
somewhat, and I think then a target validation but not a host
validation on a '286 sans '287 (or 68020 sans 68881) was required.  It
wasn't that hard a thing to support, but at the point it came up the
first time around, it was to late to ask for it.


--

					Robert I. Eachus

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