COBB@brandeis.BITNET (Wes Cobb) (05/07/89)
eric stuyvesant ( es2a+@andrew.cmu.edu ) writes... > > I have heard rumors of a PD Fortran compiler for the ST (Why not, the ST > has a PD version of everything else!!!), but I can't seem to find it. > Does anyone out there know more? I have ftp access. > well there's a nice PD fortran compiler written by some folks at CERN which runs on the ST under OS-9... the compiler is called RTF/68K and is basically a souped up dialect of VAX fortran. it supports things like register variables, pointers, inline assembly, and several types of hardware floating point. the software floating point isnt so great -- about 30 Kwhets -- which is 3 times slower than software needs to be, but since OS-9 internally converts everything to double precision you get stuck with C like speeds and largely useless extra precision... if you have OS-9, RTF is definitely worth getting. Wes Cobb Physics Dept Brandeis University