Re: Making Lemonade (Floating-point format changes)

On 5/19/2024 7:10 PM, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

 Kahan has several lectures about this....
 

There have been apparently more things killed off by slow performance than by lack of FPU accuracy.

Say, at the time, performance apparently killed off:
   Amiga (killed off by its slow graphics)
     Bit planar graphics rather sucking if one wants fast screen
redraws;
   M68K, killed off for being too slow vs x86;
   Cyrix, because its Pentium equivalent was slow at running Quake;
   ...