ANSI/IEEE Std 854-1987 – the IEEE Standard for Radix-Independent Floating-Point Arithmetic was developed primarily in the years 1982 through 1985. The Standard lists thirty-seven contributors, chaired by W. J. Cody. The minutes of the meetings were recorded by Fred Ris, who kindly located the original SCRIPT/GML source files from which the attached PostScript and PDF (Acrobat) files have been generated.
Some of the rationale for parts of the standard may be found in the paper A Proposed Radix- and Word-length-independent Standard for Floating-point Arithmetic by W. J. Cody. et al, in IEEE Micro, August 1984, pp86-100.
| Date | SCRIPT | PostScript | |
| April 1982 | 854M8204.scr | 854M8204.ps | 854M8204.pdf |
| August 1982 | 854M8208.scr | 854M8208.ps | 854M8208.pdf |
| October 1982 | 854M8210.scr | 854M8210.ps | 854M8210.pdf |
| December 1982 | 854M8212.scr | 854M8212.ps | 854M8212.pdf |
| April 1983 | 854M8304.scr | 854M8304.ps | 854M8304.pdf |
| June 1983 | 854M8306.scr | 854M8306.ps | 854M8306.pdf |
| July 1983 | 854M8307.scr | 854M8307.ps | 854M8307.pdf |
| January 1984 | 854M8401.scr | 854M8401.ps | 854M8401.pdf |
| July 1984 | 854M8407.scr | 854M8407.ps | 854M8407.pdf |
| March 1985 | 854M8503.scr | 854M8503.ps | 854M8503.pdf |
| April 1985 | 854M8504.scr | 854M8504.ps | 854M8504.pdf |
| July 1985 | 854M8507.scr | 854M8507.ps | 854M8507.pdf |