Interbase had a type called QUAD in its VAX version from V1. I remember some scrambling with generators when the array of counters stopped fitting on a page. Probably FB V1.

> On Feb 5, 2015, at 6:12 AM, Dmitry Kuzmenko kdv@... [Firebird-general] <Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Hello, Lester!
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> Thursday, February 5, 2015, 1:01:34 PM, you wrote:
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> LCllcuFg> I'm just having fun with 64 bit support in PHP and while drafting a
> LCllcuFg> reply I suddenly thought. "When did 64bit BIGINT appear in Firebird?"
> LCllcuFg> Were generators always 64 bit or did they evolve from 32bit. I probably
> LCllcuFg> knew the answer at one point, but those grey cells have long since been
> LCllcuFg> detached from the recall subroutines
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> 64bit generators - InterBase 6.0
> BIGINT - Firebird 1.5.
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> BIGINT itself is a mapping from internal INT64 datatype, that was in
> InterBase 6.0 available only as NUMERIC(18,0).
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