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From: smac@munmurra.mu.oz (Stuart McCormack)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: F77 on PR1MEs
Message-ID: <820@munmurra.mu.oz>
Date: 20 Dec 88 09:02:52 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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When last I played with (yuk) PRIMEs (1986), their FORTRAN was abysmal.
The only good thing going for it was the debugger and that was, in any
case, a separate product.

A better, cheaper and faster option was the FORTRAN77 compiler from
the University Of Salford in England. ( Distributed in Australia by
Flinders University. )

This product was roughly one third the cost and benchmarked twice as
fast in computation and approximately three times faster over basic
I/O *without* the need for PRIME's rinky-dink run-time libraries.
Very sexy!

If you must run FORTRAN on PRIMEs, try this compiler. It remains the
best F77 compiler I've used.


P.S. Would you endorse my opinions?