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From: zhao@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (T.C. Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Does FORTRAN live? (Was: Re: Are VMS and VAX synonymous (Was: Re: VMS games))
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Date: 22 Dec 87 18:39:13 GMT
References: <39rrk@byuvax.bitnet> <167@icus.UUCP> <488@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
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In article <488@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>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.
I can't agree more. I believe CTSS on Cray was written mostly in Fortran.
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