Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ptsfa!pacbell!att-ih!ihnp4!ttrdc!levy From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Help us defend against VMS! Message-ID: <2219@ttrdc.UUCP> Date: 4 Mar 88 05:38:38 GMT References: <1636@tulum.UUCP> <20268@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL Lines: 18 Summary: UNIX OS's are GREAT. But not with FORTRASH... In article <20268@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, bzs@bu-cs.UUCP writes: > Unix is the premiere system for compute intensive areas, such as the > sciences using Fortran. The reason is the vast range of power a > program written to run under Unix presents... [can be ported to machines > of different sizes] As a Death-starian, I heartily second the motion that the UNIX system is great :-) -- but NOT with FORTRAN, at least not on plain-vanilla UNIX systems. As you said yourself, the key phrase here is "compute intensive." I.e. you need all the crunch you can muster. Code compiled by /usr/bin/f77 is not all that marvelously efficient, to put it mildly. Of course the Cray people don't use /usr/bin/f77 :-) but if you're on a lesser machine it matters. (DEC now does sell a FORTRAN compiler for ULTRIX which is as good as its VMS version, and co$t$ about as much.) -- |------------Dan Levy------------| Path: ..!{akgua,homxb,ihnp4,ltuxa,mvuxa, | an Engihacker @ | }!ttrdc!ttrda!levy | AT&T Computer Systems Division | Disclaimer? Huh? What disclaimer??? |--------Skokie, Illinois--------|