[ih] bytes [Re: "network unix"]

[Tony Finch]

John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

> The biggest complaint about the 360's 32 bit words was floating point
> precision, but that was at least as much due to the well known design
> mistakes in 360 hex floating point as the word size.

I was wondering what those mistakes were, and I found this comp.arch
message from a certain John Levine...

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.arch/m7P2QFqayuo

Tony.
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