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Article #187floating-point hardware arrives
From: utzoohenry
Date: Thu, 13 May 1982 18:58
Date: Thu, 13 May 1982 18:58
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The floating-point-arithmetic hardware has been installed and it seems to work. Some very preliminary benchmarks indicate a speedup of simple calculations by roughly a factor of 100. Since both the memory and the floating-point processor are now in full operation, the previous ban on running things like Basic and APL during office hours is hereby ended.
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From: utzoo!henry Newsgroups: general Title: floating-point hardware arrives Article-I.D.: utzoo.2035 Posted: Thu May 13 18:58:21 1982 Received: Thu May 13 18:58:21 1982 Subject: floating-point hardware arrives Date: Thu, 13 May 1982 18:58:21 +0000 Message-ID: <bnews.utzoo.2035>