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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CAS DFP support
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:39:12 +0100
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> Also, I think the 602 (may have never seen the light of day)

I never saw any 602 in the wild, and no one I ever asked has.

> only  implemented single precision floating point.

Actually, it implements double precision just fine (although
all double precision arithmetic operations trap and have to
be emulated).  Loads and stores work, the FPRs are 64 bit.

Anyway, off-topic, and this CPU doesn't actually exist anyway.


Segher