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Aucbvax.5868 fa.info-vax utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Wed Jan 20 10:55:09 1982 Re: pandoras box >From cbosgd!mark@Berkeley Wed Jan 20 10:11:44 1982 The only real reason I've heard people cite for running VMS is that the VMS Fortran compiler produces much better code than the UNIX f77 compiler.

If transportability of software across hardware boundaries means nothing to you, and if you like intricate packets of funny little goobies to do common ordinary I/O, then go with VMS.

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