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From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
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Subject: Re: Short Vectors Versus Long Vectors
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:52:36 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

>> [Seymour] only did fast and simple, starting before the CDC 6600.....

> And he didn’t seem to have much truck with “memory management” and 
> “operating systems”, did he? He probably saw them as just getting in the 
> way of sheer speed.

Base and bounds was good enough for numerical programs.

On the other hands, NOS did things no other OS did.....

> And he didn’t care for some of the niceties of floating-point arithmetic 
> either, for the same reason.

Heck, FP arithmetic is only approximate anyway--it is just more
approximate on my machines.....