In article <jv64v5$g2n$2...@reader1.panix.com>, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> The last ones I worked on that where the FP format wasn't IEEE were > the DEC VAX According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vax#History, the last VAX was produced 7 years ago. I'm sure there's still more than a few chugging away in corporate data centers and manufacturing floors, but as an architecture, it's pretty much a dead parrot. IEEE floating point is as near to a universal standard as it gets in the computer world. About the only thing that has it beat for market penetration and longevity are 2's complement integers and 8-bit bytes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
