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Arrays’ subscripts priority

I was reading a lecture on arrays for Fortran 90
and I came across this sentence :
‘Fortran always stores by columns – the first subscript
varies more rapidly than the second, and so on.’

Arrays’ subscripts priority

I was reading a lecture on arrays for Fortran 90
and I came across this sentence :
‘Fortran always stores by columns – the first subscript
varies more rapidly than the second, and so on.’

Why was Fortran never used to develop an Operating System?

I’m not a Fortran developer myself, but I’m about to use it a little and found myself wondering why, if it is much older than C but equally as performant as C, was it never used to develop any operating system before C and UNIX came along?