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From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: fort vs f77
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Date: 3 Jun 91 18:36:48 GMT
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In article <91154.093431STRCC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, STRCC@CUNYVM.BITNET (Stuart Cohnen) writes:

|>Fort was written by MIPS for DEC.  F77 was written by DEC is far
|>faster and has better diagnostics. Version 3.0 is now available.

Actually, Digital never had a product called "fort" on the DECstation/DECsystem
(RISC) line.  "Fort" is the name of the executable image of the VAX FORTRAN
for ULTRIX product.

The current release of DIGTAL's Fortran for RISC is, indeed, 3.0, and it is, indeed,
a very good compiler.  Of course, I'm just a wee bit biased ... ;-)

					Frank