Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms)

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From: John English
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:27

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In <1992Nov13.155126.3660@linus.mitre.org>, by bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman):
> Herman is bemoaning the fact that quite often a computer HAS hardware
> to execute some particular instruction that he likes, but that HLL's
> do not allow him access to it.

One of my favourite quotes (from the VAX/VMS Runtime Library manual):
	"The VAX instruction set was designed for efficient use by
	 high level languages and therefore contains many functions
	 which are directly useful in your programs.  However, many
	 of these functions cannot be used directly by high level
	 languages..."
Says it all, really.
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Subject: Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms)
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