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--------- Received message begins Here --------- > Note that Absoft has not made an announcement in comp.lang.fortran or this > forum (where is Wood Lotz?) but their web page (http://www.absoft.com) > indicates that they now apparently have Fortran 95 compilers for the > Macintosh and Linux PPC (a Power PC version of Linux). Given that their > different compilers should share common front ends, and modifications of > their Intel processor backend should not be too large if only Fortran 95 > related, I suspect that they will soon have Fortran 95 compilers for Windows > and Intel Linux. > Exactly one year ago I tested Absoft ProFortran MP 6.0 on a dual-processor board under Windows NT 4.0. The compiler was accompanied by a parallelizer (SPF from APR). I found that ProFortran MP with SPF was able to handle FORTRAN 77 sources but was unable to handle (i.e. parallelize and compile) Fortran 90 programs for the dual-processor system. Neither the Absoft support nor APR succeeded to handle my testprograms. That's why I doubt that Absoft has now means to handle even Fortran 95 programs and generate code for dual-processors (automatically, without manually modifying the sources). You may find a draft report on my experiences via http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/rrzn/gehrke/Dual-PII/fortran.html Regards / WG --- Wilhelm Gehrke, RRZN/UH, Schlosswenderstr. 5, D-30159 Hannover EMail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +49 (0)511 762-3902 WWW: http://www.wilhelm-gehrke.de %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%