At 10:04 PM 9/24/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>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.
>

	Incidentally, I believe this same issue was the reason there's no Java for
VAX.

GZ

Gordon Zaft
zaft@azstarnet.com