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  1. Newsgroups: comp.arch
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!yktnews!admin!yktnews!prener
  3. From: prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener)
  4. Subject: Re: 128 bit floating point formats
  5. Sender: news@watson.ibm.com (NNTP News Poster)
  6. Message-ID: <PRENER.92Sep15224623@prener.watson.ibm.com>
  7. In-Reply-To: glew@pdx007.intel.com's message of Wed, 16 Sep 1992 02:12:45 GMT
  8. Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 03:46:23 GMT
  9. Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
  10. References: <1746@sousa.ltn.dec.com> <GLEW.92Sep15181245@pdx007.intel.com>
  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: prener.watson.ibm.com
  12. Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York
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  15. In article <GLEW.92Sep15181245@pdx007.intel.com> glew@pdx007.intel.com (Andy Glew) writes:
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  17. >Q: I believe that the RS6000's double double format is not hardware supported.
  18. >Don't they just emit the correct sequence of DP flops to get the QP answer?
  19.  
  20. That is correct.
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  22.                                    Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)
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