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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability
Date: 1996/12/06
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Brian Hanson says

"The machines refered to in the previous paragraph are the Massively
Parallel
machines but it is also true that the latest top of the line cray vector
machines now do IEEE floating point."

Are you sure, I thought they used Alphas, and from a practical point of view,
Alphas are not 100% IEEE compliant.