28 Jul
2008
28 Jul
'08
3:56 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
IF it is the same as IEEE single precision,
there is a sign bit,
I don't know much about the Amiga, but I think he said it was using
Motorola's Fast Floating Point library (MC68343). That doesn't use IEEE
format natively, though it includes functions to convert to and from
IEEE format.
The FFP was not IEEE because by using a nonstandard encoding they were
able to get higher performance.
Eric