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Intel to sell Massachusetts R&D site, once home to its only New England fab

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Re: Another End of an Era moment

Intel use IEEE formats for floating point and double precision arithmetic. DEC had developed their own formats before those standards emerged.

There was a library, but I forget its name, for converting data between SUN, VAX, and intel formats. It handled byte ordering for integers and floats, as well as converting floating bit patterns. Text data, one byte at a time, needed no special treatment.

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