[comp.arch] Cyber 205 arithmetic

aglew@dwarfs.crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) (08/31/90)

>[ dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) ]
>This was done on a Cyber 205.  Now, if you talk about sloppy arithmetic,
>here is your machine.  What other machine has that a=b does not imply b=a?
>What other machine has vector instructions that can overflow if there
>are enough interrupts during execution? 

I've heard about a=b/b!=a, but not about the overflow caused by interrupts.
Care to elaborate?

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