On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Anders Magnusson wrote:

> The 750 can't handle G and H floats in hardware at all. It has microcoded
> D and F floats that can be accelerated with a FP750. There is a module
> called KU750 that implements G and H floats in software (microcode) but
> without it there will just be an "reserved instruction" trap.

You learn something new every day. :-)
I've never digged *that* deep into the 750. I do have an FP750 lying
around, though.

> The 730 have all floating point formats in microcode, and all of them
> can be accelerated with a FP730.

Interesting. Now I guess I'll have to look up the 86x0 machines. :-)
(I do have an 11/730 by the way, Ragge... ;-)

	Johnny

Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                  ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt@update.uu.se           ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol