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Re:Millennials and Mainframes: How to Bridge the Gap by js8 on Friday September 14, 2018 @01:28AM (#17984901)
The CPUs in the zSeries mainframe actually support 3 floating point formats (in fact there is like 10 of them if you count all the sizes):

- IBM legacy hexadecimal floating point you mentioned

- IEEE 754 binary floating point

- IEEE 754 decimal floating point (they were a first implementation of it)

So perhaps you were downvoted because on the mainframe, you don't have to use the legacy format at all.

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