[libre-riscv-dev] [isa-dev] Re: FP transcendentals (trigonometry, root/exp/log) proposal

[Hendrik Boom]

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 03:25:41PM -0700, lkcl wrote:
>
> i am reminded of a message by hendrik [allo similarly old person, told ya 
> your input was valuable :) ] on iibre-riscv-dev a couple months back about 
> how Ahmdahl got similar customer complaints, and had to have an OS patch 
> providing *EXACTLY* bit-for-bit the brain-dead broken FP accuracy of the 
> mainframe that Ahmdahl were copying.

Yes.  I guess is *is* useful to have someone remember the past so you 
won't have to relive it

-- hendrik