My failing memory seems to recall that the CDC6600 used 60 bit math for
floating point single precision operations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600 seems to confirm that.
They were great machines, till the 7600 then the Cray computers showed up...
It was interesting to bring these machines to their knees by physics
calculations that took days to run. They had to be run on weekends to
keep the rest of the lab happy.
73 de Brian/K3KO
On 4/13/2018 18:06 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
We already did, in the later 70's. It ran on a CDC6600. We used it for
guidance analysis and trajectory planning/simulation for the Apollo
missions. FORTRAN IV, double precision FP words.
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 4/12/2018 11:10 PM, Martin Sole wrote:
When are we going to see 128 bit OS's :)
Martin, HS0ZED
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