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Billions or trillions of ops per second and 1987 don't really go together.
by djmips 2y ago
Billions or trillions of ops per second and 1987 don't really go together.
- saagarjha 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2
- djmips 2y agoGood point! Side note: Cray-2 did not use IEE 754 floating point. https://cray-history.net/2021/08/26/cray-floating-point-numbers/ https://cray-history.net/2021/08/26/cray-floating-point-numb...
- pclmulqdq 2y agoCray did use floating point. It didn't use IEEE standard floating point. Floating point arithmetic is older than the transistor.
- djmips 2y agoYeah I know. I linked the specs.
- saagarjha 2y agoYeah I mean they were surely too old to support it. But the designers of IEEE-754 must have been aware of these systems when they were making the standard.