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Re: What kinds of problems...

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1989 19:15
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In article <11458@cgl.ucsf.EDU> seibel@cgl.ucsf.edu (George Seibel) writes:
>... Would there be any
>commercial interest in a really fast integer box that had only fair
>floating pt performance?

Probably.  That's what the Sun 3 mostly was, a few years ago, and it does
seem to have attracted some commercial interest... :-)
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: What kinds of problems...
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