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Article #1708Re: DECstation floating: VAX or IEEE?
From: Allen Akin
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 1990 00:55
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 1990 00:55
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In article <1990Jul10.152724.567@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu> granroth@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu writes: >... >Do the DEC/MIPS/RISC workstations use IEEE floating point or VAX floating >point internal representations? The MIPS-based DECstations use IEEE floating-point and little-endian byte ordering. This makes them completely data-format compatible with the Intel x86 family of processors, which may be interesting if you're attempting to share data with PCs. Allen
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!basalt!allen From: allen@basalt.uucp (Allen Akin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: DECstation floating: VAX or IEEE? Message-ID: <1990Jul11.005547.27430@wrl.dec.com> Date: 11 Jul 90 00:55:47 GMT References: <1990Jul10.152724.567@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Reply-To: allen@decwrl.dec.com (Allen Akin) Organization: DEC Advanced Technology Development, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 11