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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: how to advocate new software/hardware features (Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms)
- Message-ID: <id.MT2V.RXE@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1992Nov13.200222.23955@sal.wisc.edu> <id.OS0V.0DI@ferranti.com> <TMB.92Nov17222432@arolla.idiap.ch>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:09:18 GMT
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- In article <TMB.92Nov17222432@arolla.idiap.ch> tmb@idiap.ch writes:
- > I somehow don't follow your reasoning. If _some_ FORTH implementations
- > provide a particular machine specific feature, then it's "in the
- > language",
-
- The 16*16/16 operation, "*/", is in the language definition. All Forth
- implementations I ever used, back when I was using Forth extensively,
- provided this operator.
-
- I haven't used a 32-bit Forth, but I would consider any implementation
- that did not promote ALL the 16-bit operations incompetant.
- --
- Peter da Silva / 77487-5012 USA / +1 713 274 5180
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