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=== Hardware support ===
IEEE quadruple precision was added to the [[IBM System/390]] G5 in 1998,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Schwarz |first1=E. M. |last2=Krygowski |first2=C. A. |date=September 1999 |title=The S/390 G5 floating-point unit |journal=IBM Journal of Research and Development |volume=43 |issue=5/6 |pages=707–721 |doi=10.1147/rd.435.0707 |citeseerx=10.1.1.117.6711 }}</ref> and is supported in hardware in subsequent [[z/Architecture]] processors.<ref>{{cite news |author=Gerwig |first1=G. |last2=Wetter |first2=H. |last3=Schwarz |first3=E. M. |last4=Haess |first4=J. |last5=Krygowski |first5=C. A. |last6=Fleischer |first6=B. M. |last7=Kroener |first7=M. |date=May 2004 |title=The IBM eServer z990 floating-point unit. IBM J. Res. Dev. 48 |pages=311–322}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Schwarz |first=Eric |date=June 22, 2015 |title=The IBM z13 SIMD Accelerators for Integer, String, and Floating-Point |url=http://arith22.gforge.inria.fr/slides/s1-schwarz.pdf |access-date=July 13, 2015 |archive-date=July 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713231116/http://arith22.gforge.inria.fr/slides/s1-schwarz.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The IBM [[POWER9]] CPU ([[Power ISA#Power ISA v.3.0|Power ISA 3.0]]) has native 128-bit hardware support.<ref name=gcc6changes/>
Native support of IEEE 128-bit floats is defined in [[PA-RISC]] 1.0,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://grouper.ieee.org/groups//754/email/msg04128.html |title=Implementor support for the binary interchange formats |website=[[IEEE]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027202715/https://grouper.ieee.org/groups//754/email/msg04128.html |archive-date=2017-10-27 |access-date=2021-07-15}}</ref> and in [[SPARC]] V8<ref>{{cite book
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