On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 11:09 -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> You recall incorrectly. IEEEfp was never added to VAX. Alpha could do
> either VAXfp or IEEEfp which might be what you are recalling.
Probably; along with memories of VAX Gfloat format....
>
> > 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 do I...
- Jim
>
> > So I see no backward compatibility issue of merit here.
>
> Same issue for Java on VAX (since Java specifies IEEEfp).
>
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Jim Gettys <[email protected]>
One Laptop Per Child
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