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Re: [f-cpu] Re: Floating-Point?
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:24:02AM -0600, Ben Franchuk wrote:
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> Anybody for 56 bit floating point, ints, pointers ?
> I was thinking LISP and other list processing languages might want to
> use the upper byte for internal flags and garbage collection
> and the remaining 56 bits as data in a 64 bit word. Ben.
If somebody wants to turn the F-CPU into a LISP machine, he should
rather *add* bits (and send me a dozen working chips, for free ;).
--
Michael "Tired" Riepe <Michael.Riepe@stud.uni-hannover.de>
"All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"
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