[Info-vax] Roadmap

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org
Fri Jan 4 10:51:06 EST 2019


In article <q0mfpv$mqc$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:
> 
> Yes, my mistake, I did mean X_FLOAT. H_FLOAT was also 128-bit double but
> I think that died with the VAX.
> 

   IIRC, Alpha supported all the VAX floating point formats, plus the
   IEEE, except that IEEE 128 bit wasn't actually implemented in
   hardware.  Or at least not in EV4.

   Or did they do the same to H_FLOAT?




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