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Article #11280Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms)
From: peter da silva
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:09
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:09
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In article <TMB.92Nov17222432@arolla.idiap.ch> tmb@idiap.ch writes:
> I somehow don't follow your reasoning. If _some_ FORTH implementations
> provide a particular machine specific feature, then it's "in the
> language",
The 16*16/16 operation, "*/", is in the language definition. All Forth
implementations I ever used, back when I was using Forth extensively,
provided this operator.
I haven't used a 32-bit Forth, but I would consider any implementation
that did not promote ALL the 16-bit operations incompetant.
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Peter da Silva / 77487-5012 USA / +1 713 274 5180
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Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) Subject: Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms) Message-ID: <id.MT2V.RXE@ferranti.com> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <1992Nov13.200222.23955@sal.wisc.edu> <id.OS0V.0DI@ferranti.com> <TMB.92Nov17222432@arolla.idiap.ch> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:09:18 GMT Lines: 16