Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/12/84; site desint.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!desint!geoff From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Accountants, Finance, Language Message-ID: <270@desint.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 21:59:01 EST Article-I.D.: desint.270 Posted: Fri Dec 7 21:59:01 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 06:13:24 EST References: <62@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <252@desint.UUCP> <4721@utzoo.UUCP> <554@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: his home computer, Manhattan Beach, CA Lines: 11 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... -- Geoff Kuenning ...!ihnp4!trwrb!desint!geoff