Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mike Schilling" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java claims WORA Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:58:10 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <8bc88bdc-bd63-4dd2-ba6c-cb0a7622fa1f@googlegroups.com> <4fe23a6f$0$282$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4fe259da$0$285$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Injection-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:57:31 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="efTb1rwTtYUrtWAF9CJ3tQ"; logging-data="31512"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18KUwdcAgffFid8IC9PFKtqOhNHmXnNeLo=" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 Cancel-Lock: sha1:+q56iOnwuDp4VDPPICK3ONIF3Bs= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15571 "Arne Vajhøj" 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? :-)