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Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>,
	"b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: g95 as a system fortran compiler?
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Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> writes:
> Anton has been working with me and really has been trying to get=20
> (upstream) attention.  With FreeBSD being a niche OS and Itanium
> going the way of the Alpha and the Dodo [...]

Don't write it off just yet...  although it will probably never see
widespread use in commodity hardware, it seems to be doing quite well in
the scientific computing sector.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no