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| From | "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Java claims WORA |
| Date | 2012-06-24 16:58 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <js89ha$uoo$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <8bc88bdc-bd63-4dd2-ba6c-cb0a7622fa1f@googlegroups.com> <4fe23a6f$0$282$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <jrtg8s$b4f$1@speranza.aioe.org> <4fe259da$0$285$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> |
"Arne Vajhøj" <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote in message news:4fe259da$0$285$14726298@news.sunsite.dk... > On 6/20/2012 5:45 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: > >> Java requires IEEE floating point, so it tends not to be available >> on hosts that have a different floating point format. > > That is supposed to be the reason why VAX did not get Java. > > But they could have emulated IEEE FP if they wanted to. They had 4 different floating point formats, what's one more? :-)
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Java claims WORA owais <awais4you@gmail.com> - 2012-06-20 08:33 -0700
Re: Java claims WORA Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-20 09:21 -0700
Re: Java claims WORA Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-20 09:46 -0700
Re: Java claims WORA Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-20 10:47 -0700
Re: Java claims WORA "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-24 16:56 -0700
Re: Java claims WORA Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-06-20 17:02 -0400
Re: Java claims WORA glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-06-20 21:45 +0000
Re: Java claims WORA Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-06-20 22:25 +0000
Re: Java claims WORA Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-21 00:57 +0200
Re: Java claims WORA Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-20 16:46 -0700
Re: Java claims WORA David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-06-20 19:56 -0400
Re: Java claims WORA Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-06-20 19:16 -0400
Re: Java claims WORA "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-24 16:58 -0700
Re: Java claims WORA Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-20 16:43 -0700
Re: Java claims WORA Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-06-20 20:30 -0400
Re: Java claims WORA Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-20 18:37 -0700
Re: Java claims WORA Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-06-20 21:47 -0400
Re: Java claims WORA Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-06-22 19:18 +0200
Re: Java claims WORA "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-06-22 15:59 -0400
Re: Java claims WORA Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-24 04:43 -0700
Re: Java claims WORA "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-06-24 18:51 -0400
Re: Java claims WORA Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-24 23:27 -0700
Re: Java claims WORA "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-06-26 15:43 -0400
Re: Java claims WORA Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-06-22 18:23 -0600
Re: Java claims WORA Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-22 21:40 +0200
Re: Java claims WORA David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-06-25 09:57 -0400
Re: Java claims WORA Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-25 20:34 +0200
Re: Java claims WORA Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-25 20:44 +0200
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