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From: ken@fear.UUCP (Ken Rauch)
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77
Subject: Re: Looking for a good Unix FORTRAN
Message-ID: <326@fear.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 12:07:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 27 12:07:53 1986
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References: <348@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Organization: Weitek Corp. Sunnyvale Ca.
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Summary: DEC now supports its VMS Fortran Compiler under Ultrix

In article <348@mcgill-vision.UUCP>, notes@mcgill-vision.UUCP writes:
> 
> In trying to decide whether or not to use VMS or Ultrix on one of our
> new machines (a MicroVAX II), the politics has come down to the decision
> that if we can get a good FORTRAN compiler to run under Ultrix, we will
> go with that, otherwise it is VMS.  Now, for reasons of systems management
> (I don't want to get into religious debates over the relative virtues of
> VMS and Unix) most of the programmers and system managers in the lab would
> like to continue with Unix, so...
> 
 DEC has recently announced that it is offering the very same Fortran
 compiler under Ultrix that it has been offering under VMX so your choice
 should be easy.