sambo@ukma.UUCP (Father of micro-ln) (08/01/86)
I am not sure if this is the proper place to post this. If not, perhaps someone could enlighten me. For my thesis I have designed a language to fully support the IEEE standard 754-1985 for binary floating-point arithmetic. I would like to devote some space on a discussion of how feasible it is to implement compilers for this language. Therefore, I need some information on the instruction set (pre- ferably not just a list thereof) and the architecture of some of the most popular chips implementing this standard. I suppose this means the Intel 8087, the Motorola 68881, the Weitek 1164/1165, whatever National Semicon- ductor has, and others. I know all about the 8087, having programmed in assembly language for it, and I know about AT&T's 32106(?) MAU. What would be the best way to get information on the other chips? (Perhaps some addres- ses would be nice.) Also, I would like to get some information on Apple's MacIntosh ROM routines as well, since the standard does not have to be imple- mented in hardware. Thank you in advance. --------------------------- Samuel A. Figueroa, Dept. of CS, Univ. of KY, Lexington, KY 40506-0027 UUCP: cbosgd!ukma!sambo CSNET: sambo@uky.csnet "Micro-ln is great, if only people would start using it."