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   Anton Ertl to Stephen Fuld   
   Re: floating point history, word order a   
   05 Jan 26 09:08:25   
   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Stephen Fuld  writes:   
   >  if it is used it is probably used most on IBM Z series.   
      
   Possibly.  But the lack of takeup of the Intel library and of the gcc   
   support shows that "build it and they will come" does not work out for   
   DFP.  So even on System Z, if there is a takeup, it is probably small   
   and the result of an effort by IBM to make programmers use DFP.   
      
   - anton   
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