27 Nov
2021
27 Nov
'21
2:30 a.m.
Paul Winalski <paul.winalski(a)gmail.com> writes:
Back in the pre-virtual-memory days of the System/360,
IBM offered its
compilers in at least three variants: F, G, and H. They differed in
the amount of memory required and in features and especially the
sophistication of the optimizations they performed. IBM PL/I H
required the most memory and performed the highest levels of
optimization.
Is there any relationship, other than pure coincidence, between this
naming scheme and DEC's F, G, and H floating point number formats?
-tih
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