Marcel Kilgus wrote: > I suppose it's QPC only as QPC exchanges all the original FP calls > with a few "QDOS to IEEE, compute using FPU, IEEE to QDOS" routines > (which doesn't really take more time than, say, about 5 emulated > average instructions...). The problem seems to lie in the back > conversion to QDOS format and only affects negative numbers. I think I > have fixed it, but then I have some headache at the moment and FP > arithmetics is no fun even when fit and sober. > > BTW, I've read that Quanta published some IEEE<->QDOS FP conversion > routines in the past (might have been quite some time ago). Does > anybody remember this and can scan me a copy? Marcel, if you can find out which issue it was in, I have the complete set from issue 1 and will gladly scan them for you.
I've looked in Chris Adams's Quanta index which goes up to about 1995 and couldn't find any entries under QDOS, IEEE or 'Number'. -- Dilwyn Jones
