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From: wcs@alice.UUCP (Bill Stewart, usually)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.fortran,comp.misc,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Quadruple-Precision Floating Point ?
Keywords: REAL*16 hardware? obscure
Message-ID: <8561@alice.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 88 10:24:36 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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Are there any machines that implement quad-precision (128-bit) floating
point numbers in hardware?  Are there any commercial Fortran compilers
that support it?  (e.g. IBM 370 Fortran-H)   We've had a couple
applications that have come by recently that want it, and I had never
known anyone supported it.

(Will I have to write an extended-precision package?
We probably don't have the information to do numerical
analysis on this code to see if they really needed it.)

			Thanks;  Bill
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#				Thanks;
# Bill Stewart, att!ho95c!wcs, AT&T Bell Labs Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705