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Aucbvax.4569 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Tue Oct 20 21:43:39 1981 Jim Reeds floating point simulator hacks... >From Schauble.Multics@MIT-Multics Tue Oct 20 21:13:58 1981 have one more disadvantage. With the standard FP simulator, you can take the object code and execute it on a machine with floating point (at full speed), or on a machine without (VERY slow). With those changes, on a machine without FP, it will run (slowly) and on a machine with it will run (slowly, since it won't use the hardware FP).

I guess each person will have to make their own tradeoff.

Paul

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