ccloreta@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au (01/25/91)
Does anyone know whether the DECUS package SSP (Scientific Subroutine Package) is available for a VAX/VMS system. I was unable to located the package in the current DECUS catalogue - but if you are using, or have used this software on a VMS machine - please rely to this message. Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Loretta... =============================================================================== Loretta Davis DECNET: uqvax::ccloreta Supervising Program Librarian INTERNET: ccloreta@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au Prentice Computer Centre University of Queensland PHONE: +61 7 365 4075 AUSTRALIA FAX: +61 7 365 4477 ===============================================================================
geremin@decus.com.au (01/28/91)
In article <1991Jan25.144520.15271@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au>, ccloreta@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au writes: > Does anyone know whether the DECUS package SSP (Scientific Subroutine Package) > is available for a VAX/VMS system. > .....rest deleted..... I was not aware that there was a SSP package for VAX/VMS from DECUS. My initial recollection is that the VAX FORTRAN came with the SSP routines - all bundled in together (or did the Hospital just have a good salesman?). Basically the SSP-11 routines were a Digital Product (SPD #15.45.10) and were supplied on 9-track tape as well as various disk formats. The entry in the PDP-11 Software Source Handbook does not specify whether they are source code or object library. Try your friendly DEC salesman - it should be easy for him to get the VMS version if one exists (Nothing mentioned in the VMS Software Source handbook) or at least he should be able to tell you if the SSP-11 release has source code available. I don't think DEC will be releasing this sort of thing to DECUS for some time yet - considering that there are new PDP-11 models still being sold, and that Fortran is still a favourite language for RT-11 systems. Good luck, John G. v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v*v John Geremin, PDP-11 SIG, geremin@decus.com.au DECUS South Pacific Chapter. phone (02) 764 4855. c/- MEGATRONICS, p.o.box S-5, Homebush South, 2140. Australia. *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*
cdl@chiton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) (01/29/91)
In article <7873.27a4a797@decus.com.au> geremin@decus.com.au writes: >In article <1991Jan25.144520.15271@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au>, ccloreta@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au writes: >> Does anyone know whether the DECUS package SSP (Scientific Subroutine Package) >> is available for a VAX/VMS system. >> > I was not aware that there was a SSP package for VAX/VMS >from DECUS. My recollection is that the DEC SSP was a transcription of the IBM 1130 SSP, plain vanilla Fortran66. All upper case, looking like card images. Nothing but 3-branch arithmetic IF's. (Dec Fortran IV for the PDP11). I must have a couple of tapes and even an RK05 pack lying around with this software on it. But unless there is a real nostalgia value, newer and better versions of almost everything can be found in Numerical Recipes. (written from my position as DECUS RT11 SIG packrat) -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego {decvax|ucbvax} !ucsd!mpl!cdl cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu clowenstein@ucsd.edu
bjj@psuecl.bitnet (01/30/91)
In article <1991Jan25.144520.15271@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au>, ccloreta@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au writes: > Does anyone know whether the DECUS package SSP (Scientific Subroutine Package) > is available for a VAX/VMS system. Looks to me like IBM SSP became DECUS SSP which became part of DEC's VAXlab Software Library (VSL) product.