IBM Fortran extended exponent wanted

The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, recently installed
an IBM 3090/180E computer system using the VM/CMS operating system.


Some Fortran applications running on this system require exponent ranges
greater than 10E+78 and less than 10E-78 which is the normal range supported
by the standard IBM Fortran VM compiler. Is anyone aware of any alternative
Fortran compiler which will support exponent ranges greater than/less than
the above.


      | Malcolm Wade, ASCnet: malcolm@csdgwy.csd.unsw.oz |
      | VAX/VMS Systems Group, PSI: PSI%0505226633020::MALCOLM |
      | University of New South Wales, Phone: +61 2 697 2835 |
      | Sydney, 2033, Australia. Fax: +61 2 662 8665 |
[Good luck, until IEEE floating point came along most places considered
10 +/- 38 to be plenty of exponent range. -John]
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