[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

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On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 10:23:48 -0500
Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> On 2016-01-11 14:35:16 +0000, Bob Koehler said:
> 
> > In article <mailman.25.1452503591.23756.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>, 
> > lists at openmailbox.org writes:
> > 
> >> Fortran 90/95
> > 
> >    I think VAXen are stuck at Fortran 77.

That would be somewhat surprising. Would they really put the VAX out to
pasture when it came to something VMS/VAX was so famous for!?

> Looks that way.   V6.6-201, December, 1999, supports V5.4 to (likely) 
> V7.3, and implements FORTRAN-77.

That's the one, fort066 and I confirm it works quite nicely on 7.3. Kind of
a funny name for the release given FORTRAN 66 was also a standard. Not a
lot to like about UNIX but I still can't get used to not having a version
command or option on VMS/VAX. Had to see what sys$help there was to find
out what version I had.

But, how do we know there's nothing newer for VAX?

> The joys of ~twenty year old software and older, on a ~forty year old 
> architecture, and scrounging old distro kits.

Luckily this still comes with the layered products in the hobbyist distro.

> After HPE and VSI no longer care about this stuff, then some of the 
> kits will probably get posted over at BitSavers.

That's only if there's something newer than F77!

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