10 Apr
2026
10 Apr
'26
4:21 p.m.
On 10/04/2026 16.13, Robert Armstrong wrote:
Yeah. And I suspect that might have been a bit of the reasoning.
However, performance wise I would still expect it to be much worse, and
for no really good reason in this case.
But I guess it's not in any critical path anyway. :-)
Johnny
Paul Koning
<paulkoning(a)comcast.net> wrote:
... My impression is that he did it [floating point in TOPS10 for NSP] because he could
...
FWIW, unlike the -11, floating point hardware was standard on all the 36 bit machines.
So there's no reason not to use it. Even the KA had floating point, albeit in a
somewhat different format.