Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtp47.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!mcnc!rti-sel!rtp47!meissner From: meissner@rtp47.UUCP (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: IBM 360 float Message-ID: <136@rtp47.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 11:04:13 EDT Article-I.D.: rtp47.136 Posted: Tue Aug 13 11:04:13 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 06:11:51 EDT References: <741@masscomp.UUCP> <744@masscomp.UUCP> <2588@sun.uucp> Reply-To: meissner@rtp47.UUCP (Michael Meissner) Distribution: net Organization: Data General, RTP, NC Lines: 15 Keywords: IEEE-floating-point John Gilmore <2588@sun.uucp> writes: > > Just to put things in perspective, floating point has been done wrong in > many ways, by many people. (1/3 == 9/27 on a 370, and not every > 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 > cases) developed by the 754 designers and available from Berkeley. > How does one get a hold of this test suite? Michael Meissner Data General ...{ ihnp4, decvax }!mcnc!rti-sel!rtp47!meissner