Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780133943023
Author: Robert W. Sebesta
Publisher: PEARSON
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Hardware capability in IBM 704:
IBM 704 with hardware capabilities of indexing and floating point instructions strongly affected the evolution of
Till that time, the floating point hardware was unavailable in computers. So all floating point operations had to be simulated in software, which was a much time consuming process.
As, so much processor time was spent in software to process floating point values, the inclusion of floating point hardware ended the cost of interpretation...
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