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Are you saying that it isn't true that there was not floating point support? That there actually was, but nobody used it? I don't see how that changes the thrus
by hamandcheese 2y ago
Are you saying that it isn't true that there was not floating point support? That there actually was, but nobody used it? I don't see how that changes the thrust of the parent comment in any significant way, but I feel like I may be misunderstanding.
- Cumpiler69 2y ago>Are you saying that it isn't true that there was not floating point support? NO, that's not what I meant. I said you didn't need it in the first place anyway since it wasn't widely used in commercial applications.
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoNo. They're saying that instead of floating-point, fixed-point math was used instead. Floating point hardware added a lot of cost to the chip back then and it was slow to perform in software, so everyone used integer math. The price of silicon has dropped so precipitously in the last 20 years that it's hard to imagine the lengths we had to go to in order to do very simple things.