Re: IBM and float decimal

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From: robin
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:39

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Ray Mullins <mrm@lerctr.org> wrote:

> As I joked to one of my friends off-list, maybe now PL/I can finally
> differentiate between FLOAT DECIMAL and FLOAT BINARY.  :-)

I think that there was a PL/I supporting decimal arithmetic -
for a Univac machine

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