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- #Magic lines on line update#
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From Intel: Intel Visual Fortran Compiler Professional Edition delivers rapid development and winning performance for the full range of Intel processor-based platforms. Once reported, our staff will be notified and the comment will be reviewed. If you believe this comment is offensive or violates the CNET's Site Terms of Useyou can report it below this will not automatically remove the comment. Click here to review our site terms of use. NET already installed, but as of version 10, MS offered a “Premier Partner Edition” of VS that had the necessary bits, and Intel licensed that.The posting of advertisements, profanity, or personal attacks is prohibited. Initially, it required that you have Visual Studio. DEC had been working on a Linux version for a while, prior to the Intel deal, but never released it. (Six months - right!) Itanium (remember that?) support was added.
#Magic lines on line update#
CVF continued with a minor update (6.6) and bug fixesĢ004, Intel Visual Fortran 8 (previous Intel version was 7) was released, along with Intel Fortran for Linux. The acquisition added some complications for the Intel deal, but they were eventually worked out. Note that this timeline means that at no time were we HP employees. An Intel manager predicted it would take six months. The Fortran team’s task was to throw out the (excellent) GEM compiler backend and replace it with Intel’s IL0. DVF became CVF (6.5 by then), the color scheme changed to red, and that was about it.Īugust 2001, Intel acquires the Compaq Fortran team, some of the Compaq C++ team and most of the remaining Alpha engineering team. This was DEC’s Fortran 90 compiler and (mostly) run-time library, with almost all of the PowerStation extensions added in.
#Magic lines on line windows#
MS licensed Visual Studio '98 to DEC, along with the MSVC libraries, as well as other components such as the QuickWin library and Windows API declarations.ĭEC released Digital Visual Fortran 5 in 1997 and Microsoft withdrew Fortran PowerStation 4 from the market. MS didn’t want to make this sort of investment and suggested instead that DEC take over for them in the X86 market. By that time, Microsoft was realizing that they would need to put in a lot of effort to bring their Fortran PowerStation product up to Fortran 95 (and resolve the many bugs). It was command-line only and didn’t see much use.ĭEC approached Microsoft about licensing the Visual Studio IDE for the Alpha product. Then Digital was acquired by Compaq, Compaq merged with HP, and the HP compiler team and technology was acquired by Intel.ĭEC ported DEC Fortran 90 to Windows NT on Alpha processors - already had it for VMS and DEC/OSF1 (UNIX). I once read that Digital Visual Fortran (a Fortran 90 compiler for Windows) started as an unofficial skunkworks project by Digital developers. If you want to support the compiler team, buy lots of systems with Intel CPUs!
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You might shed a tear for resellers, who will now sell less of these (Intel is still selling support contracts), but I think the volumes are low enough that nobody cares.
#Magic lines on line software#
Intel already has a lot of software it provides for free, and there were many who thought compilers should be. I once was told that Intel compilers are worth “one bin” of processor speed, which is quite valuable overall.
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Developer tools are viewed as a way of making the hardware look better. Intel doesn’t sell systems directly (not counting things like NUCs, which I adore). At DEC it was particularly problematic as systems salespeople would routinely heavily discount or “throw in” developer tools along with a hardware sale. At both DEC and Intel, battles raged about software pricing. Prices range from zero to “what the market will bear”. There is really no correlation between software price and funding for a software team, at least at hardware vendors.