Three Page Floating Point Package
| 8-375A
|
Richard Rothman, Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard,
Massachusetts
This package makes available an alternative to the lengthy
floating point package distributed by DEC and also utilizes
the concept of cutting down exponent size to allow a larger
mantissa. It uses 3 word numbers, with 27 bit mantissa and
8 bit exponent.
| Minimum Hardware: | 4K PDP-8
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| Storage Requirement: | Locations 50-64, 5410-6177
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| Source Language: | PAL 10, Version 141
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| Catalog:
| July 1973
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