[Info-vax] fortran compiler roadmap?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <8043dfce-3712-4b9c-9614-6a1fd7a89f8b at googlegroups.com>, Ken
Fairfield <ken.fairfield at gmail.com> writes: 

> There are a handful of us who are in both groups pretty
> regularly.  Phillip Helbig and Glen Herrmannsfeldt come to
> mind.  Steve Lionel was a Digital/VMS employee until Digital
> (or was it Compaq?) "sold" the Fortran compiler team to
> Compaq, and thence Intel (I'm sure I have that wrong, but
> it approximates what happened).  

In 1999, I was in Boston for a conference.  Since it wasn't far away, I 
made a pilgrimage to Nashua.  Steve was kind enough to show me around.  
I brought back a Compaq mug as one of my souvenirs (admittedly the least 
prized one), so it was definitely Compaq then.  (I also got to meet Hoff 
and Andy Goldstein.  Fred Kleinsorge wasn't in that day.)  It was 
towards the end of 2000 that HP bought Compaq, and the alphacide was 
shortly before that (honi soit qui mal y pense).

By a bizarre coincidence, the woman who organized the conference in
Boston was involved with a charity for whom Steve was the webmaster.
Also, there happened to be a store nearby---they seemed to deal mostly
in video games and probably didn't even know what VMS is---which was one
of the few places in the world which had |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| InfoServers in
stock.  A fellow VMS enthusiast had asked me to bring him back a couple.
I agreed, not realizing how huge the boxes were (InfoServer, pedestal, 
packaging etc).  Somehow, I managed to bring them back to England, which 
is one of the places I was working at the time, on the plane without 
having to pay for extra baggage.  People who thought I was strange had 
their impression confirmed when, at the conference, I carried them up to 
my hotel room one by one.

Steve was always a big help with regard to VMS Fortran and an all-around 
nice guy.