jimmy@gryphon.CTS.COM (Jim Gottlieb) (10/10/87)
Does anyone out there know much about the Fortran compilers available
for the 3B1? ATT does not bundle F77 with the OS, so I have to
find a compiler out there. I have heard not-so-good things about RM
and SVS; reasonably good things about LPI. Has anyone else had similar
experiences? Is there a source for getting F77 directly. Prices?
Thanks in advance.
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Glenn T. Sueyoshi - Asst. Professor of Economics, UCSDemigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Ted H. Emigh) (10/11/87)
In article <1856@gryphon.CTS.COM> keynes!glenn@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu writes: > >Does anyone out there know much about the Fortran compilers available >for the 3B1? ATT does not bundle F77 with the OS, so I have to >find a compiler out there. I have heard not-so-good things about RM >and SVS; reasonably good things about LPI. Has anyone else had similar >experiences? Is there a source for getting F77 directly. Prices? > After hearing much the same, we bought LPI FORTRAN and LPI Pascal. This was in June. We still haven't opened the wrapper bacause of the restrictive license. In addition to the usual stuff about the compiler being used on only one machine (no problem with this) there is a clause stating that any program compiled on the one machine and used on a different machine must pay royalties! Even if it is given away free. We are in the process of modifying the license agreement with AT&T (the people we bought them from). If you can live with that, then LPI is what you want--otherwise choose another. I just hope the license thing is resolved before the money we have to pay for it evaporates. -- Ted H. Emigh, Dept. Genetics and Statistics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC uucp: mcnc!ncsuvx!ncsugn!emigh internet: emigh%ncsugn.ncsu.edu BITNET: NEMIGH@TUCC @ncsuvx.ncsu.edu:emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu