Comments on Sun's Proposal for Extension of Java Floating Point in JDK 1.2

[Vaughan Pratt]

>All seems pretty true.  To the extent (d) is true, it's not as
>nepotistic as it might appear in retrospect.  At the time this was
>decided, Java was Oak and the widely cross-platform Internet play that
>led to Java hadn't been conceived of yet.  Oak only ran on SPARC and
>using IEEE 754 was the natural choice there.  New processors were
>mostly implementing IEEE 754.

Do the Solaris-x86 folk get to talk with the Java folk?

Vaughan Pratt