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From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
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Subject: Re: Retirement hobby (was Re: 80286 protected mode)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:32:22 +0000
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 5:39:52 +0000, Terje Mathisen wrote:

> MitchAlsup1 wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 19:11:59 +0000, Terje Mathisen wrote:
>>
>>> MitchAlsup1 wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:25:42 +0000, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>> My wife and I will both go on "permanent vacation" starting a week
>>>>>> before Christmas. :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm guessing that permanent vacation will be some mixture of actual
>>>>> vacation and self-chosen "work".  In any case I hope you both enjoy
>>>>> the time.
>>>>
>>>> Just remember, retirement does not mean you "stop working"
>>>> it means you "stop working for HIM".
>>>
>>> Exactly!
>>>
>>> I have unlimited amounts of potential/available mapping work, and I do
>>> want to get back to NTP Hackers.
>>>
>>> We recently started (officially) on the 754-2029 revision.
>>
>> Are you going to put in something equivalent to quires ??

In posits, a quire is an accumulator with as many binary digits
as to cover max-exponent to min-exponent; so one can accumulate
an essentially unbounded number of sums without loss of precision
--to obtain a sum with a single rounding.

> I don't know that usage, I thought quires was a typesetting/printing
> measure?
>
> Terje
>