[libre-riscv-dev] fp special functions

Hendrik Boom hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Mon Aug 5 14:04:15 BST 2019


On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 05:17:12AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 5:15 AM Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> 
> > Amdahl's 360 clones did their operations lat-bit accurately.  IBM's
> > original didn't do them all correctly.  Amdahl was forced by its
> > customers to install a switch that would force the machine to produce
> > the same wrong answer as IBM's.
> 
> *smacks-forehead*.... :)

I'm sure Amdahl did that too.

-- hendrik



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