See the third citation in my reply to your sibling comment. Granted, personal exchange after an IEEE committee meeting is a weak citation, it is consistent wit

See the third citation in my reply to your sibling comment. Granted, personal exchange after an IEEE committee meeting is a weak citation, it is consistent with Kahan's email stating that he had tried to convince IBM to implement decimal floating point in hardware approximately 30 years prior to 2005 (my second citation to your sibling comment).