Any decent Fortrans under Unix ? Which machine ?

[Mike I'll be mellow when I'm dead Meyer]

In article <199 at mdivax1.UUCP> kenward at mdivax1.UUCP (kenward) writes:
>Geoff Kuenning writes:
>> ...The moral is that you should be careful, but you *can* find a decent fortran under Unix.
>
>The question is, where?  Myself and a number of others have posted requests 
>for information on a GOOD fortran compiler for unix.  A definite, useful 
>answer has yet to appear (at least, that I have not seen any).  I am checking 
>out the availability of VMS Fortran for unix, but even it is available (at a 
>reasonable cost) it is a *new* port, and considering the difficulty others 
>have had porting to unix, I have to be slightly pessimistic.

Ah, it appears that you are asking a slightly different question than the
one Geoff is answering: he says that you can find a decent FORTRAN for Unix,
you are looking for one for Unix on a VAX. That severely limits your
choices.

Rumor (from "usually reliable sources") has it that part of the support for
the VMS/Ultrix FORTRAN is in Ultrix proper, so you won't be able to run it
on a non-Ultrix VAX. Solution: Buy Ultrix, of course. [Buying Ultrix may not
be as bad as you think. If you haven't looked at it seriously, don't laugh
about it.]

	<mike