[OT] Computers from Mars (was: Re: le32_to_cpu() help...)
Andreas Bombe (andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de)
Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:30:24 +0100
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 02:35:47PM +0100, Tor Arntsen wrote:
> In article <fa.h6it7ov.a3gc3l@ifi.uio.no>,
> hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) writes:
> >Both macros do the same thing on all *currently supported*
> >architectures. One never know when a funny thing from Mars shows up;
> >perhaps a 48-bit architecture, who knows...
>
> Norsk Data ND-10 and ND-100 minicomputers could be ordered in a special
> version where single-precision floating point registers were 48 bits
> instead of 32 bits (double-precision were always 64 bits).
> Worked rather nicely actually :-)
>
> Ah, and integer word size was 16 bits.
Bah, floating point register sizes don't count. They usually are
bigger than CPU word size and have strange sizes. Motorola 68k
floating point regs are 80 bits long while the CPU itself is a 32 bit
architecture.
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