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Article #1711DECstation floating: VAX or IEEE?
From: granroth
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 1990 20:27
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 1990 20:27
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Forgive me for posting this simple question to the net, but I'm sure I'll get an answer far faster than going through the local sales rep. Do the DEC/MIPS/RISC workstations use IEEE floating point or VAX floating point internal representations? I've been told that the DECstations use low-byte-first as do the VAX systems, and I suspect that the floating point is similar, but what is the underlying format? And if they use VAX floating point, does the software also do G and H floating, etc? Thanks. -Larry Granroth@IowaSP.physics.UIowa.edu IOWASP::GRANROTH
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu!granroth From: granroth@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: DECstation floating: VAX or IEEE? Message-ID: <1990Jul10.152724.567@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu> Date: 10 Jul 90 20:27:24 GMT Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa Lines: 12