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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Lynn McGuire   
   Re: Intel Fortran Help in VS   
   27 Jan 24 05:38:26   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 23:17:10 -0600, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
      
   > On 1/26/2024 10:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> [PL/I] never caught on much (outside of IBM). Yet Fortran has ended up   
   >> reinventing a lot of it.   
   >   
   > Prime computer used PL/1 to rewrite the Primos Operating System in from   
   > Fortran (66, I think).   
      
   Also used to create MULTICS. You know, the project that Bell Labs exited,   
   to go on to create a, shall we say, anti-MULTICS.   
      
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