[TUHS] arithmetic, Re: ANSI (C) vs IEEE (POSIX) Standards Body Selection

[John Levine]

It appears that Charles H Sauer (he/him) <sauer at technologists.com> said:
>I was waiting for Heinz to say something, assuming he would at least say 
>what he did about the beginnings of POSIX.
>
>Another IEEE standard of great historical import is IEEE 754-1985 for 
>representing floating point numbers. Many of the 801 people wanted to 
>preserve IBM Hexadecimal floating point introduced with System/360. 

In view of the well known horrible numeric properities of the hex
floating point, why? Because they had so much code written to work
around it?

R's,
John