Re: IBM and float decimal

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From: robin
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:41

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Peter Flass wrote in message ...
>John W. Kennedy wrote:
>> multicsfan wrote:
>>
>>> Float Decimal(63); was directly supported by the Multics hardware so
>>> legal in Multics PL/1.  It was actually Decimal, not binary.
>>
>> And there was something on IBM mainframes, too. The PRPQ VSPC PL/I,
>> perhaps, or Allan-Babcock's RUSH system, or both.
>>
>> And 360/20 PL/I, I think.
>
>Was there ever such a thing??? Never heard of it.

360/20 or PL/I on th3 mqchine?

Both existed.

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