Floats in the protocol

[Jim Gettys]

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 <jg at laptop.org>
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