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From: peter@keba.UUCP (Peter Scheer)
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: <784@keba.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 87 14:22:16 GMT
References: <39rrk@byuvax.bitnet> <167@icus.UUCP> <488@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <3982@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@keba.UUCP (Peter Scheer)
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In article <3982@uwmcsd1.UUCP> zhao@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (T.C. Zhao) writes:
>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
>> [...]
>I can't agree more. I believe CTSS on Cray was written mostly in Fortran.

(b.t.w. this is my _first_ use of the "F"-key, so ...)
Anybody remember MUSIC (McGill University System for Interactive Computing) ?
J. Kepler University in Linz/Austria/Europe was one of the sites running it
in Europe on an IBM 360/44 and i was the sys.admin - back in 1975.
Lots of lots of FORTRAN.
FORTRAN-Calls for EXCP (EXecute Channel Program) and SIO (Start I/O).
(Yes, I know, the kernel was ASM - but everything else, from accounting
to user-administration and even disk formatting was FORTRAN)

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long long ago ...
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