On Fri, 8 Oct 1993 14:15:51 GMT Robin Popplestone (pop@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk) wrote:
| Are we getting into one of these "real programmers" arguments here. "Real
| programmers don't use floating point - they write their fixed point routines
| in assembly code and ought to know the range of the quantities they are
| computing with". (Maybe they should...???)
"Real Programmers" don't use floating point. This make the life of the
"Real Chip Desighner" much easier, and the overall product much less
(price/performance)-y.
We'll se how this will work for MuP21/F21.
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