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Absolutely... IIRC, the IEEE standard was ambiguous, and each vendor implemented things differently. I think the standard was "fixed" in 1999... This situation happened in 2009!

But the technical problem wasn't the problem -- the issue was that they created an inquisition that had outlived its purpose.



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