Xref: utzoo comp.arch:7603 comp.lang.fortran:1636 comp.misc:4449 comp.lang.c++:2283 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu From: schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.fortran,comp.misc,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Quadruple-Precision Floating Point ? Summary: PR1ME Keywords: REAL*16 hardware? obscure Message-ID: <4165@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Date: 19 Dec 88 22:48:11 GMT References: <8561@alice.UUCP> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Reply-To: schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Followup-To: comp.arch Organization: Pennsylvania State University, Computer Science Lines: 9 In-reply-to: wcs@alice.UUCP (Bill Stewart, usually) In article <8561@alice.UUCP>, wcs@alice (Bill Stewart, usually) writes: >Are there any machines that implement quad-precision (128-bit) floating >point numbers in hardware? Are there any commercial Fortran compilers >that support it? The Prime x50 series had this, and their f77 compiler supported it, in at least one instruction mode. -- Scott Schwartz