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 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.