Not much value added in this, but just in case it was a 70 -vs- 83 oddity: 
it works on my 11/70 with Johnny's f77 RPM install just as you entered it.
So maybe OS or ForTran install issues?

```

*ex

DU0:[RITORTO]HW.FOR;2 3 lines

$ fortran hw

$ l hw,lb:[1,1]f77fcs/lib

$ run hw

Hello World!



On Wed, 8 Apr 2026 at 16:24, Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com> wrote:

   Hey folks, before I start digging into this, I figured I'd ask here.
A simple "hello world" program in F77 on RSX-11M-PLUS fails to start thusly:

$ run hello
TT3  --  Exiting due to ERROR 2
Task initialization failure

   I was trying to move a larger FORTRAN program to this system (the
11/70 at LSSM) and it was dying with this message, so I wrote a quickie
test case to narrow it down.  It's just a write to unit 5:

         WRITE(5,10)
10      FORMAT(' Hello World!')
         END

...compiled with "FORTRAN HELLO", and linked with:

L HELLO,LB:[1,1]F77FCS/LIB

   No warnings or errors.  It runs fine on my 11/83 at home with a very
similar config.  Before I dig in, can anyone quickly point me to what
I'm missing?

          Thanks,
          -Dave

--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA

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