[Info-vax] Reading Gordon Bell's VAX strategy document

[John Dallman]

In article <cb83004a-46f6-424f-8b3d-6879af803e86n at googlegroups.com>,
gah4 at u.washington.edu (gah4) wrote:

> One not talked about much, but that I have known for a long time, is
> that hexadecimal floating point is more convenient for pipelining.

Do you have a citation for that? I've been updating Wikipedia's page on
hexFP, simply because I'd dug into the idea a bit, and started to realise
why it lost more precision than the architects had expected. 

> The book by Blaauw and Brooks, "Computer Architecture" describes
> many architectures, but includes some details that actually went
> into S/360, because they designed it. 

Ordered a used volume 1. 

John