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Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 04:34:58 +0100
From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 5i floating point?
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On Wed, 9 May 2012 12:36:06 -0400
erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:

> On Wed May  9 10:38:21 EDT 2012, cinap_lenrek@gmx.de wrote:
> > aiju wrote an arm emulator for 9front some time ago and
> > i remember he implemented floating point on it.
>
> why was it done this way rather than extending 5i?

my memory of the irc discussion over it is vague now, but i think 5e is
substantially different. patching 5i was considered, but i think it was
found wanting in more areas than just floating point.