fpo9 wasRe: [Coco] NitrOS-9 Team:

[Willard Goosey]

>From: jdaggett at gate.net
>Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 08:16:08 -0400


>From what I understand is that draft 8 was out around 1982/3 time
>frame. Draft 10 was later. Also Draft 10 became the foundation for
>IEEE854 which is Radix Independent. IEEE754 only concerns is with
>binary floating point.

Radix Independent?  Eek.  Sorry, for the 6809 we prefer floating-point
formats whose operations can be implemented in less than 64K. ;-)


>> Ohh, you should upload the source to RTSI, then.  
>> 
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>If I knew how, I would.

What phase is the problem?  Maybe I can help.

>My first guess would be that it was an relocatable macro
>assembler/linker combo that ran on a 6800 or 6809 Exorcisor
>system. One with those giant 8 inch floppies. 

All I know about the Exorcisor is that it existed.  So, let me guess,
the fpo9 source is on 8" disk?  Or do you just have a printout or
something like that?

Willard
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