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To be fair the B5/6/7 Burroughs machines also had integers ... it's just that they'd chosen a floating point format such that mantissa-sized integers and a 0 ex
by Taniwha 5y ago
To be fair the B5/6/7 Burroughs machines also had integers ... it's just that they'd chosen a floating point format such that mantissa-sized integers and a 0 exponent always worked and didn't get renormalised unless you overflowed
- kragen 5y agoInteresting! That does agree with Organick's explanation, but he described it as them not having integers.