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From: 16012_3045@uwovax.uwo.ca (Paul Gomme)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: MSDOS Fortran
Message-ID: <1991Jan21.133951.8347@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 21 Jan 91 18:39:50 GMT
References: <1991Jan17.171224.19665@engin.umich.edu> <19886@hydra.gatech.EDU> <12277@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Department of Economics, UWO, London, Ontario, Canada
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In article <12277@pucc.Princeton.EDU>, BVAUGHAN@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan) writes:
> In article <19886@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt4512c@prism.gatech.EDU (BRADBERRY,JOHN L) writes:
> 
>>Lahey is one of the least expensive at allowing you to use memory beyond
>>the dreaded 640k boundary
> 
> You've got to be kidding. The only Lahey version that allows you to break
> 640K is the F77L-EM/32, which is $895 ($995 as of April). It also
> requires the purchase of QEMM or something on top of that.  The $99
> Personal Fortran is strictly a 640K compiler.

While I won't contest the pricing information (since I don't know what the
prices are), there are two factual errors here:

(1) I've used the extended memory version of the Lahey compiler; it does _not_
    require QEMM or any other expanded memory manager.  In fact, I could not
    get either the compiler or compiled code to run when I had QEMM loaded.

(2) the Personal Fortran from Lahey is restricted, as I recall, to 64K of user
    code, and 64K of data.  You need the "full" F77L to use 640K.

>>John L. Bradberry        |Georgia Tech Research Inst|001100110011001100110011
> 
> Barbara Vaughan
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