hartzell@beagle (George Hartzell) (03/02/88)
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. -- George Hartzell (303) 492-4535 MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309 hartzell@Boulder.Colorado.EDU ..!{hao,nbires}!boulder!hartzell (bitnet hosts try: hartzell%boulder.colorado.edu@jvnca.csc.org)