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From: conor@Glacier.ARPA (Conor Rafferty)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: Ultra-fast fortran compiler for UNIX
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Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 22:55:57 EDT
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Reply-To: conor@Glacier.UUCP (Conor Rafferty)
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>Amusing anecdote: this apparently caused someone grief when a
>program using real*8 datatypes to move integer or string values
>around...

Even more amusing, one such program was SPICE (Berkeley's
famous circuit simulation program).

conor rafferty == decwrl!glacier!conor == conor@su-glacier.arpa