DOUBLE-QUICK(ID:6500/dou001)Early floating point systemDouble precision version of QUICK at Douglas El Segundo Related languages
References: We had a floating-point abstraction program called QUICK, which was an interpreter. It was written by us (Jack Reynolds, I believe.) We had a double-precision floating-point abstraction called DOUBLE-QUICK, but it was never finished. The idea was that if a QUICK program didn't seem to work because of precision problems or a person was suspicious of it, it could run on DOUBLE-QUICK. The trouble was, it took about twice as much space for storage of data, and the DOUBLE-QUICK abstraction program itself was longer than QUICK, so that we couldn't run very big programs on DOUBLE-QUICK. in Annals of the History of Computing, 05(2) April-June 1983 IEEE (IBM 701 Issue) view details |