There was a recent discussion on comp.os.vms concerning
this very subject.   The news was not good.  Apparently
the Vax does not do IEEE floating point format so the
data integrity suffers (something about the Vax rounding
in a different direction than IEEE).

Anyway, unless someone can come up with a way to emulate
IEEE arithmetic on the Vax it would appear to be a dead
issue.

Thanks,
Jim


On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Gunnar Helliesen wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999 carlini@andnot.lkg.dec.com wrote:
> 
> > There was some work doen to get SETI@home going under OpenVMS on Alpha (and
> > possibly VAX too). If someone at COMPAQ is working on an Ultrix or NetBSD port
> > then it's news to me.
> 
> There is no OpenVMS VAX client, at least not available from the SETI@home
> site.
> 
> In fact, there is no client for VAXen at all, regardless of OS.
> 
> Gunnar
> 
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