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Re: [STDS-754] GRE: rogue comment: IEEE 754R and Reproducibility
Anyone with experience of IBM 1970s mainframes can brear witness
to that!
Hmm, my experience of IBM mainframes in the 1970s was characterized by how
much more reliable (and repeatable) they were compared to every other
computer I had used before. And they still are -- just today I logged
into my VM/CMS account and ran a program I last compiled in 1977 (the STET
editor) and it worked just as it always did. Same binary, much newer and
faster hardware -- but it still ran, 30 years after it was compiled. I
wish that same attribute applied to some more recent programs I have
written for some other platforms...
mfc
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