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From: bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Fortran 77 on microcomputers
Message-ID: <141@imspw6.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 18:59:06 GMT
Organization: IMS Inc., Rockville, MD
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I hate to say it, but the best shot available at porting mainframe 
Fortran stuff to micros would probably involve one of Jack Tramiel's
1040 STs and a copy of the good Absoft Fortran which was available
for Macs and Amigas last I saw and should be there for the STs by
now.  The amount of pain and grief saved as compared to trying to
get any kind of halfway serious system up under DOS will probably
pay for the Atari several times over.  The Absoft 68000 Fortran has
been around on 680x0 based super micros since about 1983 and is very
highly rated.


Ted Holden 
HTE