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From: dick@ucsfcca.UUCP (Dick Karpinski)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: IBM 360 float
Message-ID: <400@ucsfcca.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 15:52:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 15 15:52:46 1985
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Reply-To: dick@ucsfcca.UUCP (Dick Karpinski)
Organization: UCSF Computer Center
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Summary: Try IEEE or me for 754 (&854)

In article <4127@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>> manufacturer can make that claim!)  This is why it's so valuable to have
>> the IEEE 754 standard -- it doesn't have these anomalies, it DOES have 
>> valuable facilities lacking in other designs, and you can tell when you've
>> implemented it right.  There's a test suite (driver plus about 20,000 test
>
>Can someone tell me how to get a copy?

Well, the right place to get IEEE standard documents is from 
   The Secretary
   IEEE Standards Board
   345 East 47 th Street
   New York, NY 10017

I have a few copies of the draft that was approved as well as copies
of the binary and decimal format free draft (IEEE p854).  There are
test vectors available from UCB (address on request) for $100 and a
program to show you how bad your non-IEEE arithmetic is.  This last
item is Paranoia, written up in the Feb 85 Byte.  It is available in
three languages (BASIC, FORTRAN, and Pascal) on floppy disk for $15.

Call or write for more info, as if this weren't too much already.

Dick

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