Gould floating point

[Dik T. Winter]

In article <8089 at brazos.Rice.edu> larryw at milton.u.washington.edu (Larry Weissman) writes:
|If the Gould uses IBM 360/370 floating point representation, you can use
|the code below for conversion. This runs on the SPARCstation, not the
|Gould.

Note that Goulds floating-point format is not identical to IBM's.  It uses
another representation for negative numbers (IBM is sign magnitude while
Gould is 16's complement).

dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik at cwi.nl