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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <mailman.119.1452616123.14919.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>, lists at openmailbox.org writes:
> 
> 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.

   Long before VAXen stopped being sold, DEC stopped providing any
   significant software updates.

   The excuse at the time was a claim that all the customers still on
   VAX wanted the freeze.