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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Accountants, Finance, Language
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Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 21:59:01 EST
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In article <554@cbosgd.UUCP> ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) writes:

>One additional point:  not all machines have hardware support for BCD
>arithmetic.  As it stands, the C language can be implemented *efficiently*
>on a reasonably large number of machines.

The 68000 doesn't have floating point...
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	Geoff Kuenning
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