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To: greenspirit who wrote (51571)	3/30/1998 2:10:00 AM
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Thread, Article...Intel, Sun Get To The Point On Java... March 27, 1998 Inter@ctive Week: The dispute about which platform is better for running Java is over. After more than a year of negotiations, Intel Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have agreed on how floating-point arithmetic operations should be specified in Java. The two companies are circulating a proposal to Java licensees and plan to formally announce their agreement today. The issue is sticky because both Intel (www.intel.com) and Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com) have claimed Java handles floating-point operations in a way that favors the Sparc architecture from Sun (www.sun.com). Calculation-intensive applications such as three-dimensional rendering and animation use floating point, and Intel said its chip was being penalized. "Our view is that the majority of Java development is happening on the Intel platform, and we want Java to run very well on the Intel architecture, " said Greg Keisor, a senior architect and Intel's representative to the International Standards Organization. The issue became public a year ago after Microsoft hired a mathematician, Jerome Coonen, to find out how the Java specification affected floating-point operations on Intel. Coonen found that Intel users would suffer performance penalties because Java supported Sparc's 64-bit operations rather than Intel's 80-bit. ______________________________________________________________________ Regards, Michael

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