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

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On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:18:54 -0500
Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> On 2016-01-12 14:10:04 +0000, Bob Koehler said:
> 
> > In article <mailman.114.1452527624.14919.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>, 
> > lists at openmailbox.org writes:
> >> 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!?
> 
> So is that trolling, willful blindness, or genuine ignorance?

If it's a question from me about VAX/VMS it is almost genuine ignorance.
But thanks for considering the first two possibilities ;-)

I wasn't there so I really don't know. I thought I read in a recent post
here that VAX was still sold into the early 2000s (2002?). If so I would
have thought there would have been an F90 compiler given the VAX apparently
had very nice floating point hardware support and the amount of VAX hardware
already out there where people didn't want to/need to migrate to Alpha.

> VAX is utterly and totally dead, having been replaced over twenty years
> ago.

Fortran 90 came out twenty five years ago, hence my question.

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