At NCAR there was a structured Fortran preprocessor named IFTRAN that was in use for a
long time. The earlier versions of the NCAR Local Network (NLNET), later renamed MASnet
(Mainframe and Server network), as well as a variety of graphics packages were written in
it. I still have the IFTRAN to C translator I wrote to convert everything to C code so we
didn?t have to spend money on Fortran compilers on the Unix boxes.
MASnet was a Hyperchannel cross bar network used for batch job submissions and data
transfers to/from the Mass Storage Server (MSS), the supercomputers and the front end
servers. Eventually it was migrated to run on top of TCP/IP and Ethernet when the
Hyperchannel hardware got expensive to maintain and comparatively slow.
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