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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by nickpsecurity on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:37PM (#13208399)
Your point is true but I thought you Fortran users might find the OS below interesting since they wrote it in Fortran. Only one I know of.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRIMOS

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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by emmelaich on Sunday December 18, 2016 @08:54PM (#13208947)
Nice bit of trivia! I was an admin of a Primos machine briefly while also doing scientific programming.

Primos wasn't much good compared to the commercial Unixes that were appearing. It did have one nice-ish feature late in it's history; the CPL scripting language.

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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by draegtun on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @12:35PM (#13221957)
Wow, big trip down memory lane here because my first job was on a Prime mini-computer! Wrote a complete system using CPL scripts (with the occasional bit of Fortran thrown in) on Primos.

Shame to hear that Prime / Primos is now defunct but that job was back in the 80's!

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