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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)
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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.

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          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
	  ERBE DATA AB