Re: Apple and the Holy War

[regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps)]

>hoenyx quazar@dcnet2000.com  wrote:

>For the sake of argument, there was at least one Apple II programming
>system that supported larger integers. The Apex system supported integers
>up to 15 bytes long!

The original Wozniak FP code fit in 256 bytes. I was at a conference once where
someone had made some clever but fairly simple changes to this little jem so
that it did arbitrary precision. He could use a 20 byte mantissa if he chose
for example.

The paper is among the FORML archives somewhere from the anuala Asilomar
conference.

Charlie Springer