If there is a fortran 90 compiler for vms and
It offers the possibility of parallel programming
Then I'll include it.
The compaq entry is based on what was in mikes
Information file.
Cheers
Ian Chivers
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Phillip Helbig
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Subject: Re: Parallel programming update
> Automatic Co Array HPF MPI OPENMP Posix
> Threads
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> Compaq
> Tru64 Unix Y Y
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> HP
> HP-UX Y
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> Intel
Is it merely nostalgia that I miss the VAX FORTRAN compiler and its
descendants, particularly the VMS Fortran 90/95 compilers for ALPHA?
(Ownership has changed from DEC to Compaq (which, as a company, no longer
exists, so it shouldn't be in the table) to HP, with the current compiler
coming from Intel (by a rather complicated route), where it is produced by
many of the folks who used to work at DEC.)
I realise that, sic transit gloria mundi, DEC's star has fallen in the world
of academia. (Outside of academia, VMS is alive and well and paying my
salary, though admittedly this is mostly a non-Fortran world (though COBOL
is very much alive).) On the other hand, it is still available and even at
a reasonable cost to anyone in academia who is interested, and its lack in a
table such as the above will only encourage the trend of its neglect. I
don't know what the situation is today, but when my main job was in
academia, I had several students ask for an account on my (privately owned)
VMS machine, since the compilers were better than what they were provided
with.
I don't know what the status of the Fortran compiler on Itanium and/or later
than Fortran 95 is. (The two might be related, similar to the situation
where Fortran 90 and 95 are non-VAX.)
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