Thanks Robert for the clarification. Your response was much as  
expected. I still miss the possibilities of extended floating point  
arithmetic and, although slower than other types, it would be much  
faster on modern Macs now. <sigh>
-Stu

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On 22-Feb-10, at 5:53 PM, Robert Purves wrote:

> These are equivalent ways of declaring a 16-bit signed integer  
> variable:
> dim as SInt16  x
> dim as short   x
> dim as int     x
> dim as integer x
>
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> Floating point types are single and double. 'real' has no meaning to  
> FB unless you #define it.
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> The file "Key Words" in the Headers folder specifies what the editor  
> should display in keyword style, and "Fixed" is missing from that  
> file. Added for the next release.
>
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> The (software-based) floating point arithmetic in FBII was  
> idiosyncratic and extremely slow.