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- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!gideony
- From: gideony@microsoft.com (Gideon Yuval)
- Subject: Re: 64-bit CPU vs 2 x 32-bit CPUs
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.163322.20444@microsoft.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 16:33:22 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <9207160336.AA02067@x1sun6.ccl.itri.org.tw> <GLEW.92Jul23181843@pdx007.intel.com>
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- In article <GLEW.92Jul23181843@pdx007.intel.com> glew@pdx007.intel.com (Andy Glew) writes:
- >Finally, there are some applications that benefit from simply having
- >larger integers. John Mashey has mentioned robotics as one such area
- >(although I have talked to robotics manufacturers who take a
- >completely different approach). But, once again, you have to prorate
-
- Mashey says the robotics guys' reason for using 64-bit integers is that
- they don't trust 53-bit mantissas. Given this reason, I wouldn't
- expect an Intel man (selling 80-bit X87 math) to have that issue
- come up.
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- Gideon Yuval, gideony@microsoft.com, 206-882-8080 (fax:-883-8101;TWX:160520)
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