simon@cs.ualberta.ca (Simon Tortike) (09/25/90)
We are contemplating an engineering undergraduate computer lab of about
30 NeXTstations here at the University of Alberta. This decision will be
contingent, amoungst other things, on the availability of DOS emulation
and Fortran.
SoftPC is supposed to be ready in the first quarter of 1991.
Has anybody any information on the compatability of the emulation? If
the Macintosh version is an indication, users here tell us that it only
emulates the 8086 processor, while we need something that will support
programs running on 286 and 386 machines which use a lot a floating point
computation---i.e., we need coprocessor support. Does anyone know about
site licensing of SoftPC?
Does anyone have Absoft f77 in a lab environment? Were you able to
obtain a site licence agreement? Is Absoft f77 as good/bad as Sun
F77 v1.3?
I will summarise any replies and repost to this news group.
Thanks,
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Dept of Mining, Metallurgical | fax : 403/492-7219
and Petroleum Engineering, | CA*net : simon@cs.UAlberta.CA
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