27 Jun
2024
27 Jun
'24
8:36 a.m.
It appears that Charles H Sauer (he/him) <sauer(a)technologists.com> said:
I was waiting for Heinz to say something, assuming he
would at least say
what he did about the beginnings of POSIX.
Another IEEE standard of great historical import is IEEE 754-1985 for
representing floating point numbers. Many of the 801 people wanted to
preserve IBM Hexadecimal floating point introduced with System/360.
In view of the well known horrible numeric properities of the hex
floating point, why? Because they had so much code written to work
around it?
R's,
John