Re: IBM and float decimal

You might want to look at http://www.multicians.org/
 Many prime people 
came from the Multics project.

M. Ray Mullins wrote:
> That's scary.  Two of the three machines I used in college sup****ted it!

> And I remembered this arcane fact!
> 
> I miss the Prime machines and architecture.
> 
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> "Tom Linden" <tom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>>On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 11:13:09 -0700, M. Ray Mullins 
>><transitfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>I seem to remember - but I could be wrong - that I worked on an
>>>implementation of PL/I in the early 1980's that did differentiate as 
>>>well.
>>>
>>>It was either the Honeywell Series 6000 Level 66 running GCOS 7(?) or
the
>>>Pr1me 50 Series.
>>
>>Primos did, we supplied the compiler
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>>
>>>But we're talking a long time ago and it was college.
>>>
>>>"robin" <robin_v@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>news:lXy7f.764$Hj2.701@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>Ray Mullins <mrm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>As I joked to one of my friends off-list, maybe now PL/I can finally
>>>>>differentiate between FLOAT DECIMAL and FLOAT BINARY.  :-)
>>>>
>>>>I think that there was a PL/I sup****ting decimal arithmetic -
>>>>for a Univac machine.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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