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From: urjlew@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Proprietary lock-in of customers (was: Why have FORTRAN 8x at all?)
Summary: So r r y
Message-ID: <5815@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 88 22:24:46 GMT
References: <388@ubbpc.UUCP> <44400030@hcx2> <397@ubbpc.UUCP> <5814@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <5814@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>, urjlew@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
% 
% Mr. William G. Hutchison <wgh@ubbpc.uucp> of UNYSIS is trying to argue
% that the difficulty everyone has in converting to the DEC system is
% indicative that all these companies have somehow nonstandard versions
% of Fortran. However Since all these dificulties are with DEC rather
% than with each other, perhaps, just perhaps, it is DEC which is non
% standard. 

Sorry in the above article I should have said UNIX not DEC.
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