John Klos writes:
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> Just for curiosity, I'd love to know more about VAX floating point... is
> it more accurate / less accurate? What does a fp register look like?

Besides the things Brian Chase already stated, there are differences
between VAX and IEEE for values with zero exponent and non-zero sign/
fraction. IIRC IEEE uses these to signal special conditions like NaN.
If the sign-bit is not set, VAX treats these values as exact zero, all
values with zero exponent and sign-bit set are invalid and an yield an
reserved-operand fault.

Ciao,
	bertram