barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (10/24/90)
NeXT has taken some heat for not bundling a Fortran compiler. Just thought I'd point out that Sun has unbundled their Fortran compiler, and you now have to pay extra for it---so there goes on big Sun advantage. This is probably one way they plan on skimming extra profits off those Sparc SLC's. I mean, what good is a Sparc without a fortran compiler? (Whereas, a NeXT without one is still plenty good.) -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)