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Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem!

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On 8/30/2011 6:32 AM, jmfbahciv wrote:
> Andy "Krazy" Glew wrote:
>> On 8/29/2011 9:56 AM, nmm1@cam.ac.uk wrote:
>>> In article<4E5BB93F.2030406@SPAM.comp-arch.net>,
>>> Andy \"Krazy\" Glew<andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net>   wrote:
>>>> On 8/29/2011 4:56 AM, Terje Mathisen wrote:
>
> <snip interesting discussion>
>
>>
>> I am collecting these against the next time I am involved in an effort
>> like MMX.  Where shortsighted people will say "all we need to support is
>> 4:2:2 YUV, and we should add a special instruction just for that",
>> rather than more general support.  Or vice versa.
>
> Please consider putting your collections on bitsavers, or somewhere,
> so that the knowledge doesn't get lost.
>
> /BAH

I am putting my collection on comp-arch.net --- my own personal 
wikipedia.  I had not considered it as Bitsavers, but fair enough.

Why "my own personal" - well, I started putting it on wikipedia, but got 
tired of stuff being deleted by the wikipedia trolls.

Why not "bitsavers"?  Well, my impression is that bitsavers is about 
saving manuals, etc.

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Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-08-30 13:32 +0000
  Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-08-30 07:02 -0700
    Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! Morten Reistad <first@last.name> - 2011-08-30 17:09 +0200
    Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-08-31 13:21 +0000
      Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-08-31 07:55 -0700
        Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-09-01 13:39 +0000
          Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 01:24 +1000
          Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-09-01 08:28 -0700
            Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-09-02 13:44 +0000
      Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 04:30 +1000
        Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2011-09-01 13:39 +0000
          Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 01:26 +1000

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