Xref: utzoo comp.arch:7595 comp.lang.fortran:1634 comp.misc:4445 comp.lang.c++:2279
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu!kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu!JONESD
From: JONESD@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (David Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.fortran,comp.misc,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Quadruple-Precision Floating Point ?
Message-ID: <1241@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 88 15:53:51 GMT
References: <8561@alice.UUCP> <456@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>
Sender: news@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu
Organization: Ohio State University
Lines: 10

Some VAXes supports 128 bit floating point in hardware (they call the data
type H_floating).  The VAX-11 FORTRAN compiler supports H-floating data
as REAL*16.

David L. Jones               |      Phone:    (614) 292-6929
Ohio State Unviversity       |      Internet:
1971 Neil Ave. Rm. 406       |               jonesd@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu
Columbus, OH 43210           |               jones-d@eng.ohio-state.edu

Disclaimer: A repudiation of a claim.