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From: ndoduc@framentec.fr (Nhuan Doduc)
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Subject: Re: What is the best FORTRAN for Macintosh at the moment?
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Date: 14 Dec 90 15:23:30 GMT
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In <1990Dec13.162155.24820@nic.funet.fi> jhaataja@finsun.csc.fi (Juha Haataja) writes:

>We know of Absoft FORTRAN (Dongarra's Linpack-testing etc.) and 
>Language Systems FORTRAN. On the other hand, would buying A/UX 
>be the best solution? The main thing is easy portability to/from 
>other platforms. 

We do not have much experience with MacOS, except running benchmarks
but we do recommend NKR 2.1 as the "moins mauvais" since we succeded to port
a very big structural analysis code on A/UX (one of the 1st requirement is
that the source HAS TO STAY COMPATIBLE WITH mainframe versions (Vms, COS,
Sun/OS, Domain, MVS...)
We do hear that in the next A/UX release, Apple will provide us with a real
good fortran cooked (eg. adapted ?) by themselves (I'm not thinking at
Greenhills or Unisoft products).

--nh
Nhuan DODUC, 
Framentec-Cognitech, Paris, France, ndoduc@framentec.fr or ndoduc@cognitech.fr,
Association Francaise des Utilisateurs d'Unix, France, doduc@afuu.fr