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- From: dafnioti@cae.wisc.edu (Petros Dafniotis)
- Subject: Question on OpenVMS and VAX FORTRAN
- Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin--Madison
- Distribution: comp.lang.fortran
- Date: 22 Nov 92 15:24:00 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.152400.14845@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Summary: Information requested
- Keywords: Fortran, shareable images, MACRO, RTL
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- I have a few questions regarding the new Alpha systems running OpenVMS.
- In my research group we decided to purchase one Alpha now and soon more.
- However, we do have thousands and thousands lines of code on our VAX/VMS
- cluster that we shall need to port. 99.9% of the code is in VAX FORTRAN
- and the remaining are in C and MACRO. The questions are"
- (*) will shareable images be available in OpenVMS right away the same way
- as in VAX/VMS
- (*) will OpenVMS fortran be 100% compatible (as language not binaries of
- course) with VAX fortran?
- (*) are all the wonderful SYS$,LIB$,SMG$ etc routines of system and RTL be
- in openVMS totally compatible with the VAX/VMS?
- (*) in conclusion: can someone give me some information regarding what will
- be different in OpenVMS wrt VAX/VMS (other than binaries and possibly
- fundamental types eg. longwords etc)?
- (*) can someone point me to a source (ftp,journal,book) where i can learn
- more about alpha and OpenVMS?
-
- E-mail or response on the net is fine. I will summarize the responses in
- any case if there is sufficient interest.
-
- Thank you very much in advance for your time.
-
- Petros Dafniotis
- Graduate Student
- Chem Engr Dept,UW-Madison
- e-mail: dafnioti@cae.wisc.edu
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