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In article <2620@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> daw@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (David Wolverton) writes:
>In article <817@acorn.co.uk>, RWilson@acorn.co.uk writes:
>> Well us hardware folks (Acorn) have come to your rescue: the floating point
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>> One little thing: ARM based computers start at 649 pounds in the UK. And you
>> can't buy them in the states at all. Must be something in your culture
>> which doesn't want control over rounding modes :-)!
>
>Sorry to burst your bubble Roger, but the AT&T WE32206 Math Acceleration
>Unit chip provides BOTH modes AND per-instruction rounding.  For instance,
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>This chip is in the newest AT&T 3B2 models, but I don't think the production
>assembler supports this feature of the WE32206.
>

Well, Dave, you are going to have to explain to us how
this bursts the Acorn folks' bubble.  They have produced
a high-performance RISC processor which supports the
rounding modes that everybody's been talking about.  He
(Roger) didn't make any claims other than that, and the
fact that us 'mericans do not import ARM's.  ATT, on the
other hand, has an FP accelerator which supports these
rounding modes, but it is only used in a processor whose
machine language doesn't support them - the exact problem
everybody's been complaining about!  Some bubble-burster
you are... :-)

Greg Frazier
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