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From: hartzell@beagle (George Hartzell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Sun VMS fortran (was Re: Help us defendagainst VMS!)
Message-ID: <4600@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 2 Mar 88 01:31:12 GMT
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In-reply-to: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)


In article <3168@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri (Roy Smith) writes:
>...
>	Up until recently, the biggest reason I could think of to have VMS
>is because lots of other people do; we get a lot of big VMS FORTRAN
>programs which will only run on VMS because they depend on VMS extensions.
>We were seriously thinking of buying a small Vax to run VMS on just for
>those applications.  What we have done instead is order Sun's VMS
>compatable FORTRAN compiler so we can run that VMS FORTRAN on our Unix
>boxes and have the best of both worlds.
>...
>Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
>System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
>455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

Three months or so ago I stopped by Sun's demo room with a tape full of 
fortran code which used VMS very heavily.  We had been able to get it to 
compile under Ultrix with a minimum of fuss (15 minutes), but spent all 
afternoon pulling our hair out at Sun.  Has anyone USED Sun's new compiler
successfully?
g.
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