From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability
Date: 1996/11/21
Date: 1996-11-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.848592914@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1996Nov20.065345.1@eisner
Larry said
"To be fair, many of the machines whose native floating point arithmetic
is non-IEEE were designed before the IEEE standard. Manufacturers also
owe some continuity to their existing customers."
Well the IEEE standard is nearly 20 years old now, so there are very few
such machines left, and they become of decreasing interest. The only
really notable exception is the Japanese super computers, which made the
horrible error of copying junk IBM hex floating-point.
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-15 0:00 The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability The Rt Rev'd Colin James III, KOTM 1/96
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Eoin Woods
1996-11-17 0:00 ` The Rt Rev'd Colin James III, KOTM 1/96
1996-11-18 0:00 ` James Youngman
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Paul Johnson
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-28 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Jeff Miller
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-18 0:00 ` Stephen J Bevan
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Matt Kennel
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Graham C. Hughes
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Brian R. Hanson
1996-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Brian R. Hanson
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Van Snyder
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Francois Labreque
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20 0:00 ` James Mansion
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
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