[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/28/2023 10:39 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 1/28/2023 8:28 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> One of the absolute FIRST things that I was told about floating point
>> variables in my first programming class was to NEVER use them to 
>> represent
>> money.
> 
> What if you didn't have a choice?
> 
> RSTS/E V04b
> 
> Signed word integers
> Strings
> Single and double D-float
> 
> That's all there was ...

There is always integers and implied decimal.

Not fun though.

And one need an integer with enough bits ...

Could PDP-11 do 32 bit integers?

Arne