Talk:IBM hexadecimal floating-point

This page, aside from being badly written, is misleading. As far as I can tell, what it is trying to describe is the floating-point format used by IBM's S/390 hardware, whose fp format dates back to the System/360 of the 1960s, and may also be similar to a 56-bit mantissa format used by some VAX machines. On the other hand, IBM POWER chips use the IEEE 754 format, and I can't find any reference to support the idea that the S/390 format is named the IBM Floating Point Standard. —Steven G. Johnson 21:25, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

(Also, Wikipedia is not a code repository; the Java snippet is probably inappropriate, even if it is not a copyright infringement. Steven G. Johnson)