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From: FXDDR@ALASKA.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Absoft Fortran...
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Date: 23 Jan 88 16:36:00 GMT
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Thanks to the leads provided by people here, I was able to make contact with
Absoft.  Turns out there are two reasons why AC/Fortran is a little hard to
find:  (1) Absoft moved recently, and (2) apparently sales to ST users have
been underwhelming.  Anyhow, one distributor is Computer Creations, PO Box
493, Dayton, Ohio, 45459 (advertisements in STart).  It is also available
from Absoft directly at their current address:
   Absoft
   2781 Bond Street
   Auburn Hills, Michigan 48057
   Ph (313) 853-0050
They want $199 for it...Computer Creations wants $129.
The flyer they sent is annoyingly amigoid.  At the top it says "ANSI FORTRAN
77 Compiler with Debugger for Amiga" and down in the description it says
"AC/FORTRAN is the standard...for MC68000 based personal computers (Macintosh,
Amiga, Hewlett-Packard Integral PC, etc)."  The only clue that they support the
ST is the statement "It...includes several Atari ST productivity tools such
as...."
No wonder the ST sales are slow...the casual reader wouldn't even notice that
an ST version is available!
Oh well, the marketing folks can't all be geniuses.

Thanks for the assistance,
Don Rice
FXDDR@ALASKA
PS: Thanks Ravi, I think you are the only one I couldn't get a reply to.