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<span style="font-weight: bold;">On Sun 20/11/22 12:08 AM , Damian McGuckin damianm@esi.com.au sent:<br>
</span><blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #F5F5F5 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">On Sat, 21 Nov 2020, Fred J. Tydeman wrote:
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<span style="color: red;">> On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 11:30:53 +1100 (AEDT) Damian McGuckin wrote:
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<span style="color: red;">>> Out of curiosity, how many chipsets in use today still use an extended IEC60559 format?
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<span style="color: red;">> I believe that all of Intel x86 chips with its x87 FPU use the 80-bit
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<span style="color: red;">> extended format.
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Sorry, I should have summarized what I know.
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The Itaniums also have that format I believe.,
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As do some old Motorola chipsets although they the Motorola variant which
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is 96 bits wide (with 16 unused bits in the middle from memory)
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I was just curious if anybody has designed and built a chipset in the
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last 20 decades which used the 80-bit extended format.
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I have never seen a 44-bit extended format in my life.
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Regards - Damian
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