Subject: Re: A VAX microcode optimized Java VM?
To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/28/2001 11:52:04
On October 28, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> >> However, Java mandates IEEE floating point processing,
> >> which the VAX doesn't have.
> >
> >True. But there is nothing to prevent you from writing a software IEEE
> >emulating math package.
> 
> That is true, however the result would probably only have theoretical
> value :-).

  It would also be *cool*.

  Chicks dig guys who can hack VAX microcode routines.

  Or something.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD