[Info-vax] Off-Topic: UNISYS problems

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-11-11, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>>I think it did on CDC Cyber NOS.
>>
>>I remember seeing code adding B0 (always zero) to Xn to
>>ensure that if Xn contained zero then it was plus zero
>>not minus zero.
>
>
> SIX BIT BYTES!

I will mention at this point:    Radix 50. :-)

> USING FLOATING POINT NORMALIZE INSTRUCTIONS
> TO PROCESS STRINGS!  MAKE IT GO AWAY!  I'm hiding under my desk now.

There's a certain "modern" language that likes to use floating point
numbers for everything it can...

For anyone else not aware of this, the following might be of interest:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#number_type

And _this_ is the language used as part of the planet's critical websites. :-(

Simon.

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