... The Armagh Observatory (see http://star.arm.ac.uk/ ) is the oldest continuously functioning astronomical research institute in the UK and Ireland, having been in existence for more than 210 years. ... The Astropark, which is managed by the Observatory, includes two sundials, a number of outdoor exhibits and interpretation panels (see http://star.arm.ac.uk/astropark/ ), and scale models of the solar system and the larger Universe, constructed to linear and exponential scales respectively. ... Staff ....

... John Backus in New Mexico, 1976 . ... Other manufacturers came later with Fortran compilers for their machines and in 1962 IBM introduced the extended Fortran IV, which was the base for the 1966 agreed American standard ANSI X3.9 - 1966. ... An HTML version of the Fortran 77 Standard is now available! ... The purpose of the work on a new standard version was to make Fortran usable and efficient language for scientific and technical computations during the nineties. ... Parallel execution . ...