[Info-vax] In memoriam: 10 years since Alpha's passing away.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <f1523d60-e67a-4e6b-a5a6-e4b50a58c1f9 at l18g2000yql.googlegroups.com>, urbancamo <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> writes:

> Have you ever tried doing 64 bit floating point on a VAX using MACRO.

   If you're going to crunch numbers, use the number crunching language.
   VAX Fortran has built in support for 4, 8, and 16 byte floating
   point.  Made our life easier.

   But 64 bits is only 8 bytes, which all the native compilers seem to
   support.  Did you mean 128 bit (H_FLOAT)?