Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!sunic!maxim!prc From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore Subject: Re: 3rd Party Compilers Message-ID: <827@maxim.erbe.se> Date: 24 Sep 89 12:16:26 GMT References: <213200001@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <667@thor.wright.EDU> Reply-To: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Sweden Lines: 21 In article <667@thor.wright.EDU> dcourte@thor.wright.edu writes: >What gives here? I have a quote from Encore in front of me, and the >price for Fortran is an unbelievable $12,500! I was told not to expect an >educational discount of more than 25% on this. Does anyone know what the >_real_ price of Fortran is? At the price I was quoted, it is simply out >of the question. The $12,500 price is for the *parallel* Fortran compiler. The sequential one is less than half of that. And there's a sequential-to-parallel upgrade available, so you can start with the seq. compiler and later change your mind (the parallel compiler of course includes the sequential one). I do really like the parallel compiler. I can feed it just about any standard Fortran-77 program and have it parallelize the program automagically for me. Speeds development tremendeously. Even better, I can have it generate new, parallelized source for me that is the old source (comments and structure retained) with parallell statements inserted now and then. -- Robert Claeson E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se ERBE DATA AB