From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Anton Ertl  schrieb:   
   > Thomas Koenig  writes:   
   >>Anton Ertl  schrieb:   
   >>> Thomas Koenig  writes:   
   >>   
   >>>>So, kill the 64-bit machines in the scientific marketplace. I'm glad   
   >>>>you agree.   
   >>>   
   >>> Not in the least.  Most C programs did not run as-is on I32LP64, and   
   >>> that did not kill these machines, either.   
   >>   
   >>Only those who assumed sizeof(int) = sizeof(char *).   
   >   
   > And lots of others, e.g., those that assumed that longs are 4 bytes in   
   > size.   
   >   
   >>This was   
   >>not true on the PDP-11,   
   >   
   > Can you elaborate on this?   
      
   That was a mistake, as others have pointed out.   
      
   > Based on 4 months of internship at HP in 1988 and 1989, in a group   
   > that did sales support, tech support, and courses on HP 9000   
   > workstations and servers and HP/UX (the OS of the HP 9000 machines).   
   > I don't remember hearing about a customer that used FORTRAN.   
      
   *shrug* Oh well, that is very scientific evindence, statistically   
   proven.   
      
   Counterpoint: On the University workstations I worked on, Fortran   
   was very much in use.  People wrote code to run on IBM mainframes   
   and ported this to the HP workstations.  Plus, there were vector   
   computers where REAL also was 32 bits.   
      
   Whose anecdotal evidence counts more.   
      
   > Based also on the impressions I got on Usenet.  Apart from SPECfp,   
   > Fortran was nowhere to be seen.   
      
   New flash:  Engineers rarely use Usenet (I'm a bit of an exception   
   there).   
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