woo@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Woo RAC) (11/19/89)
My wife wants to offload some of her statistical work to
a 80386 machine and needs a good FORTRAN compiler which runs
under a DOS extender, like PHAR LAP. I basically only know
that such things exist but have no feel if they are worth
anything.
She will need the following:
1. Support for 80387 or Weitek FPU
2. About 1MW of Real Data
3. Large Files
4. Optionally, Namelist.
If you have any experience with FORTRAN under DOS extenders,
I would like to know what you think.
Thanks. Please reply directly as I do not read this list.
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I am currently using the NDP FORTRAN-386 with the Phar-Lap DOS extender. When we started working with the compiler we had many problems. We called MicroWay and received a pre-release of the next version of the compiler (should be out by Jan 1990). Since then we didn't have any more problems. The compiler has many VAX-FORTRAN extensions, is very compatible with NDP-C 386. One problem is with debugging: You have to use Phar-Lap's debugger that is lacking many features you expect from modern debuggers.