[Info-vax] FORTRAN use, was: Re: Whither VMS?

[ChrisQ]

John Wallace wrote:

> 
> In the late 70s/early 80s I worked on a team doing cross support
> software for assorted micros used in aero engine control systems
> (language translator, cross assembler, cross linker, etc running under
> RSX11D and then IAS and eventually VMS). Back then it was a mixture of
> PDP11 Fortran and the RATFOR preprocessor from Sourceforge-
> predecessor, the DECUS library. RATFOR was another Kernighan
> innovation. If you didn't mind a tiny tiny bit of assembler
> occasionally, there wasn't much it couldn't do. Pointers? No problem
> at all. Overlays, now that was something else, while it lasted.

Was that a certain well known aerospace and defense co in Basingstoke ?. 
The site i'm thinking of had a 750 serving a dozen or more terminals for 
edits and cross compile to 68k targets. They also had HP1000 minis for 
simulation of every path through the resulting code. Worked there from 
1985 on contract and some very very good minds at that site.

The site is now, sadly, a supermarket :-(...

Regards,

Chris