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

[David Froble]

lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> 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.
> 

Well, DEC made a run of N-VAX CPUs, but not enough, they ran out before the (I 
believe) 5 years they forecast.  These were used in the last VAX models to milk 
the customer base.  Things like the MicroVAX 3100 Model 98.  A rather nice 
system, but still without a bus for plugging in various things.

As for software, there was no new stuff that I'm aware of in the late 1990s.