On 2005-07-14, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-07-14, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You may have forgotten how much richer the "plausible HW" landscape >> was at the time too. > > I've probably blocked most of it out intentionally. I seem to > have vague, repressed, memories of working on a Sperry machine > that used base 4 floating point.
No, on second thought, I think it was base-16. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Yow! I want my nose at in lights! visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list