Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!caip!seismo!umcp-cs!chris From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Favorite operating systems query Message-ID: <2043@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Jun-86 01:40:08 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2043 Posted: Tue Jun 17 01:40:08 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Jun-86 04:48:38 EDT References: <339@valid.UUCP> <452@geowhiz.UUCP> <2041@umcp-cs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Computer Sci. Dept, U of Maryland, College Park, MD Lines: 17 In article <2041@umcp-cs.UUCP> I wrote: >Many of the performance problems [in f77] ... have been removed. >For the hard-core VMS FORTRAN fan, there is the Ultrix port of >VMS FORTRAN, about which I know nothing. In particular, many of >the math library routines now use more of that beloved hand-tuned >Vax assembly code. Oops. Invert the order of the last two lines. That flowing prose I produce >:-) is not done without some editing; and sometimes I miss a semantic glitch or two. (The `extra' `>' in the `smiley face' above represents deeley- boppers: an in joke for us USENIX groupies . . . .) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 1516) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@mimsy.umd.edu