[comp.sys.sun] Gould floating point

dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) (05/25/90)

In article <8089@brazos.Rice.edu> larryw@milton.u.washington.edu (Larry Weissman) writes:
|If the Gould uses IBM 360/370 floating point representation, you can use
|the code below for conversion. This runs on the SPARCstation, not the
|Gould.

Note that Goulds floating-point format is not identical to IBM's.  It uses
another representation for negative numbers (IBM is sign magnitude while
Gould is 16's complement).

dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik@cwi.nl