[rescue] Trade?

Scott Newell newell at cei.net
Tue May 6 12:49:31 CDT 2003


>Crays don't do IEEE FP? Why? Historical reasons? (AFAIK the Cray 1
>predates IEEE FP like VAX.)

What about division?  Didn't some of the early ones do an reciprocal
approximation instead?  (Better to be fast and close than slow and right, I
guess...)


newell



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