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|    Al Kossow to MitchAlsup    |
|    Re: MC88110 development history    |
|    27 Sep 25 11:36:37    |
      From: aek@bitsavers.org              On 9/27/25 9:41 AM, MitchAlsup wrote:       >              > The question in my mind was always:: "Why did Apple demand 80-bit FP for       > 88110 and then drop that demand when IBM said no on PPC" ???       >              Compatibility with Apple's SANE floating-point package.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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