On 2 Aug 2006 09:37:22 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Unisys still covers the two different families, so if the Burroughs >equipment had it, then they do support it on that ClearPath line. (POP for >Unisys, anyone?)
As I understood Chuck Stevens who was the Unisys COBOL representative to ANSI X3J4 and a member of the technical support team for their compilers, Burroughs large scale B7500 and beyond which I believe became the A series, stopped supporting full decimal arithmetic and Mike Cowlishaw claims that only the z series has native decimal arithmetic and it only has fixed point. There is no hardware support anywhere for bankers rounding (round half to nearest even). > >Later, >Ray > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) >Sent: Wednesday August 02 2006 06:56 >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Java Packed Decimal > >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >on 08/01/2006 > at 09:16 AM, "Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>I must assume that UNISYS uses PD. > >Unisys has or had a successor to the B6500 family, so they must have >supported PD. The 1108 didn't have PD, and I don't know whether the Unisys >successor added it. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
