Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!thad From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Fortran on A/UX? Message-ID: <35294@cup.portal.com> Date: 26 Oct 90 09:39:14 GMT References: <2724AC23.12392@orion.oac.uci.edu> <45927@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Oct24.151919.22185@panix.uucp> <45975@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 17 blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel) in <45975@apple.Apple.COM> writes: Actually, someone in the A/UX group sent me the following message: ]Actually, our F77 is better than it ever was! We fixed all the bugs, ]ran it thru a test suite, and added the Vax F77 extensions!!!! So ]there! Yow! Do that include %val, %desc, SYS$..., DECnet, and RMS file support? :-) And this is just after Ken Olson (Pres. of DEC) is written up in the local papers (San Jose Mercury News and San Francisco Chronicle) as saying that VAX/VMS is (more-or-less) doomed and that in 1991 DEC will integrate UNIX into VMS. Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]