The ( vertical ) real line on the right shows clearly the varying density of the floating point values-a property which is common to any floating point system.
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Spin-offs include Mentor Graphics, Planar Systems, Floating Point Systems, Cascade Microtech, Merix Corporation, Anthro Corporation and Northwest Instrument Systems ( NWIS )-later renamed to MicroCase.
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Later, the company produced the B5000 SPARC ECL microprocessor ( never reached production in a Sun Microsystems product, though used by Floating Point Systems ) and the R6000 ATM devices and Ethernet switches.
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The transputer achieved some success as the basis for several parallel supercomputers from companies such as Meiko ( formed by ex-Inmos employees in 1985 ), Floating Point Systems, Parsytec and Parsys.
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Culler-Harrison is occasionally cited as one of the precursors to the founding of Floating Point Systems, Inc . and the Very Long Instruction Word ( VLIW ) architecture by Joseph Fisher and James Ellis.
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:Actual implementations of exponentiation in floating point systems, and the management of error, are discussed at length in Knuth vol2 p461-483 and this paper .-- Talk 14 : 31, 23 February 2012 ( UTC)
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The Portland Group was founded as a privately held company in 1989, using compiler technology developed at and acquired from Floating Point Systems, Inc . The first products, pipelining Fortran and C compilers, were released in 1991, targeting the Intel i860 processor.
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This was inspired partly by the difficulty Fisher observed at Yale of compiling for architectures like Floating Point Systems'FPS164, which had a complex instruction set computing ( CISC ) architecture that separated instruction initiation from the instructions that saved the result, needing very complex scheduling algorithms.
