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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability
Date: 1996/11/21
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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.