floating point in 2.0

[Stuart L. Anderson]

On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Tim Peters wrote:

> HW is key, because without near-universal HW support for a thing that thing
> will never become widely accepted.  HW vendors used to punt on denorms
> because of the expense, but despite the expense everyone plays along with
> denorms now, and not because of user demand but simply because it's
> required.

None of the SGI boxes I've seen support denorms.  Also, the IBM mainframes
and the Classic Crays don't use IEEE 754 in any form.  And then, there are
the Alpha boxes running in VAX mode.

--Stu Anderson
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