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According to Scott Lurndal <
slp53@pacbell.net>:
>>Decimal floating-point hardware seems to be a marketing feature to me.
>
>Burroughs had decimal floating point (100 digit mantissa, 2 digit exponent)
>in the B3500 (circa 1965). It was memory-to-memory, no registers involved.
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>Turned out that the COBOL customers weren`t interested, ...
I`m not surprised. I would guess the modern market for DFP is more
likely to be high speed financial stuff (what`s known as picking up
pennies in front of a steam roller), not accounting.
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