On Jan 6, 2009, at 10:49 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 19:40 +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: > >> >> Why is this no longer an issue? >> >> The BSD Unixes still support the Vax and are actually used. Doesn't >> IEEE in the protocol mean mean dropping support for such >> architectures? > > This was very early VAXen; IEEE got added to the architecture in > finite > time after its introduction (it was even a firmware retrofit on the > VAX-11/780 IIRC).
You recall incorrectly. IEEEfp was never added to VAX. Alpha could do either VAXfp or IEEEfp which might be what you are recalling. > And we're talking about its use in more recent extensions: for > example, > I doubt any VAX is going to want to run Render in software.... I hope not. > So I see no backward compatibility issue of merit here. Same issue for Java on VAX (since Java specifies IEEEfp). _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
