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From: anand@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Anand Iyengar)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Comments on NeXT.
Message-ID: <1990@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 4 Oct 88 04:55:03 GMT
References: <9291@swan.ulowell.edu> <5022@juniper.uucp> <3520@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: anand@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Anand Iyengar)
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In article <3520@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>...  But, as soon as he
>found out that there was no Fortran compiler, he got real turned off.
>
>	God, I just know I'm going to get flamed for this (and I can hardly
>believe that I'm saying it myself) but unless the NeXT has a good Fortran
>package ... it's just not
>interesting to us except as a cute toy.  The rumored specs didn't say
	No flame:  this is *scary*, but unfortunately not an isolated situation
(people keep telling me about all of the wonderful FORTRAN libraries that they
keep using).  If it runs Mach (& -> Unix), it's likely to have a C compiler.
I'm sure that somewhere there's a PD FORTRAN (even if it's YACC fodder).  

>with a 68881 or 68882 as standard equipment.
	Why not:  it seems to have everything else.  

>	Oh yeah, rogue would be nice too :-)
	Hack would be nicer (and cheaper!)...

>"The connector is the network"
 "The journey is the adventure" -- Steve Jobs

							Anand Iyengar.
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