[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-05-31 07:52, Paul Sture wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2012 09:27:39 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:
>
>>     IIRC, the earliest Fortran compiler for VMS was "Fortran IV Plus",
>>     and actually had CHARACTER and other Fortran 77 pieces, so there was
>>     no need to mix Fortran 66 and 77 calling conventions for character
>>     data.
>
> Grr.  If I'd known that I could have saved myself much pain.  The manual
> I was working from didn't mention those extensions.
>
> Oh well :-)

I'm trying to recall, but fail at the moment. Did FORTRAN IV-PLUS really 
have the CHARACTER type? I seem to remember that this was one of the few 
really new things going from FIV-PLUS to F77. In many other ways 
FIV-PLUS was already a lot of what F77 became.

Anyone remember for *really* sure? Or should one start digging through 
old manuals?

	Johnny