miller@loral.UUCP (David P. Miller) (12/10/85)
I need some information on the floating point format of the Data General ECLIPSE type 32-bit (MV-10000) Computers. I tried contacting the local Data General office but all they seemed interested in was a P.O. so they could answer my question. All I'm trying to do is to obtain some hexidecimal notation information in order to generate an algorithm to convert from DG format into IEEE 488. Examples of what the sign bit, mantissa, and exponent for the following data would do: 0.5 X 2^127 -0.5 X 2^127 0.5 X 2^-128 -0.5 X 2^-128 Does anyone out there in the netland know this information or at least know of place where I can obtain it without being gouged and/or waiting six weeks for ?