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Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float

From Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float
Date 2012-07-30 16:50 -0400
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <roy-AF2F38.16504330072012@news.panix.com> (permalink)
References <5015d8d4$0$11120$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> <jv64v5$g2n$2@reader1.panix.com> <mailman.2732.1343659747.4697.python-list@python.org> <jv6ab7$jne$1@reader1.panix.com>

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In article <jv6ab7$jne$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> I imagine that VAXes running Unix went extinct in the wild long before
> VAXes running VMS.

Of course they did.  VMS is all about vendor lock-in.  People who 
continue to run VAXen don't do so because they're wedded to the 
hardware.  They do so because they're wedded to some specific VMS 
application (and the business processes which depend on it).

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Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-30 00:44 +0000
  PyPI question, or, maybe I'm just stupid Chris Gonnerman <chris@gonnerman.org> - 2012-07-29 20:26 -0500
    Re: PyPI question, or, maybe I'm just stupid Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-07-30 14:00 +1000
      Re: [Python] Re: PyPI question, or, maybe I'm just stupid Chris Gonnerman <chris@gonnerman.org> - 2012-07-30 07:46 -0500
  Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2012-07-29 18:08 -0700
  Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-07-30 01:17 -0400
  Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-07-30 08:42 +0200
  Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> - 2012-07-30 00:57 -0700
  Re: PyPI question, or, maybe I'm just stupid Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de> - 2012-07-30 11:20 +0200
  Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-30 14:16 +0000
    Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-07-30 10:28 -0400
    Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-30 15:50 +0100
      Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-30 15:47 +0000
        Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-07-30 16:50 -0400
    Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> - 2012-07-30 09:14 -0700

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