Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?

2003-06-10 Thread Tony Firshman
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 at 00:43:13, Lau wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Marcel Kilgus wrote: The history is documented here http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754story.html Can someone please define "Gradual Underflow". That was the core issue being addressed. (don't if I have simply

Re: [ql-users] Q40 size of disk

2003-06-10 Thread Colin Parsons
Hi. Look up the model on the Internet, never failed me on dozens of drives. Cheers Colin - Original Message - From: "Jerome Grimbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Liste QL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 6:31 AM Subject: [ql-users] Q40 size of disk > > Greetings, > >

Re: [ql-users] Q40 size of disk

2003-06-10 Thread Jerome Grimbert
Colin Parsons makes some magical things to make me read } Hi. } } Look up the model on the Internet, never failed me on dozens of drives. Ok, I mean: from an SMSQ/E program ? Otherwise, most drives now comes with a label which states the number of sectors... There is also the 'seek and destroy'

Re: [ql-users] Q40 size of disk

2003-06-10 Thread Colin Parsons
Should ask the right question in the first place!! Colin - Original Message - From: "Jerome Grimbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Q40 size of disk > > Colin Parsons makes some magical things to make me read >

[ql-users] Byfleet 2003

2003-06-10 Thread Ken Bain
Greetings Byfleet 2003 is booked for Sun 9 Nov 2003(!). Usual place - Byfleet Village Hall. Hope to see many of you. Ken Bain for SQSG.

Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?

2003-06-10 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Lau wrote: >> The history is documented here >> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754story.html > Superb link... thanks. (How the hell did you find it?). Using the usual keywords "ieee floating point history" and the magic one, "intel" ;-) Marcel

Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?

2003-06-10 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: >>> The history is documented here >>> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754story.html > Can someone please define "Gradual Underflow". I might be mistaken (as usual ;), but as I understand it that's the denormalised numbers we have discussed here, i.e. when th

Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?

2003-06-10 Thread Lau
Tony Firshman wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 at 00:43:13, Lau wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Marcel Kilgus wrote: The history is documented here http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754story.html Can someone please define "Gradual Underflow". That was the core issue being addressed. (d

Re: [ql-users] Byfleet - 2003

2003-06-10 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Cave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I can confirm that Ken Bain IS organising the Byfleet show for >9/11. Yes, thanks ... this does effect the plans that I had in mind. -- Malcolm Cadman

[ql-users] Question - Apologies

2003-06-10 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
Hi All, apologies, to anyone that is expecting a reply from me, but I am currently in Greece and my computer access capabilities are severely compromised :-) I would appreciate it if someone could email me the email addresses of Mel LaVerne and Herb Schaaf as I have answers for both regarding SMS