granroth@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu (07/11/90)
Forgive me for posting this simple question to the net, but I'm sure I'll get an answer far faster than going through the local sales rep. Do the DEC/MIPS/RISC workstations use IEEE floating point or VAX floating point internal representations? I've been told that the DECstations use low-byte-first as do the VAX systems, and I suspect that the floating point is similar, but what is the underlying format? And if they use VAX floating point, does the software also do G and H floating, etc? Thanks. -Larry Granroth@IowaSP.physics.UIowa.edu IOWASP::GRANROTH
allen@basalt.uucp (Allen Akin) (07/11/90)
In article <1990Jul10.152724.567@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu> granroth@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu writes: >... >Do the DEC/MIPS/RISC workstations use IEEE floating point or VAX floating >point internal representations? The MIPS-based DECstations use IEEE floating-point and little-endian byte ordering. This makes them completely data-format compatible with the Intel x86 family of processors, which may be interesting if you're attempting to share data with PCs. Allen