Re: IBM and float decimal

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From: multicsfan
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:19

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Float Decimal(63); was directly supported by the Multics hardware so 
legal in Multics PL/1.  It was actually Decimal, not binary.

robin wrote:
> 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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