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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Does FORTRAN live? (Was: Re: Are VMS and VAX synonymous (Was: Re: VMS games))
Message-ID: <488@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 87 01:14:13 GMT
References: <39rrk@byuvax.bitnet> <167@icus.UUCP>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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Summary: FORTRAN for operating systems

In article <167@icus.UUCP>, gil@icus.UUCP (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) writes:
> etc.  Granted, it is definitely not a systems programming language (could
> you imagine an operating system written in FORTRAN???)...but... (read on)
I can not only imagine it, I've used one.  Early releases of PR1MOS IV
(the operating system of PR1ME 400 and 500 series machines) were indeed
written mostly in FORTRAN.  I can't think of anything good to say about
the architecture, the operating system, or the utilities, but I don't
think FORTRAN was to blame for that.