[openbeos] Re: Fortran for OBOS ! Was: Fortran for BeOS ?
- From: "Bruno van Dooren" <bruno_van_dooren@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:50:56 +0100
OBOS will be binary compatible with BeOS R5. so indeed you could do this
without a problem.
don't know about who you should tell though.
kind regards,
Bruno.
----- Original Message -----
From: <kevin.lawton@xxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 10:20 AM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: Fortran for OBOS ! Was: Fortran for BeOS ?
> I has struck me that I could make a start with this under the old BeOS 5.0
and then move my work over to OBOS once it is ready for it. Yes ? Any
comments ? Who should I 'officially' let know that I am doing this ? It
will be good to see some modern kit display the performance it is really
capable of.
> Kevin.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul "Bo" Peaslee [mailto:h2oman@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 November 2003 01:49
> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: Fortran for BeOS ? Was:
> Multiprocessing,Mutithreading - Linux vs Openbeos
>
> kevin.lawton@xxxxxx wrote:
> > BeShare web site. Anyway if there is reasonable interest in deploying
> > Fortran under OpenBeOS I'd be happy to take it on board once the
> > system can be booted from hard disk. The question is: 'Is there any
> > interest in Fortran' - or thesedays does the general inclination lie
>
> I couldn't agree with you more, Kevin. I'd like to see Fortran on OBOS,
> too. Fortran could benefit from a decent operating environment. While
> I haven't written any Fortran code for a few years, a lot of what I did
> write was interactive and would have benefited from a fast graphical
> environment like OBOS.
>
> A decent batch processor would get past Michael's observation that a lot
> of Fortran code runs out of a batch queue. And in my mind, any good
> operating system must have a batch processor (Yeah I know it's a GE
> topic and it won't be in R1... Couldn't agree more). The processor I'm
> working on now is about 200 times faster than those Prime and DEC
> computers I developed Fortran code on.... and they ran multiple batch
> queues while supporting 50-100 users. OBOS running on the right gear
> could do it at least ten times better.
>
> I'm looking forward to running Fortran code on OBOS.
>
> Bo
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