Absoft Object-Oriented FORTRAN 77

VAX/VMS Compatible Compiler for NeXT

Full support was included for NeXTStep ‘s Interface Builder, C compiler and GDB. The threaded math library enabled the fastest 68040 execution speed. Intel 486 and Pentium™ processor optimizations were available for NEXTSTEP.

* Full ANSI X3.9-1978 / ISO 1539-1980 Implementation

* Met All MIL-STD 1753 and POSIX Requirements

* Most VAX/ VMS™ extensions were included, as well as others from Fortran 90, Cray™ and Sun™ FORTRAN.

* Fully integrated into the NeXT environment — was compatible with Interface Builder, Objective C, and all standard NeXT tools; linker, assembler, library manager, and make facility

* Included STRUCTURE, UNION, MAP & BYTE VMS extensions. Cray/Sun style POINTER, GLOBAL DEFINE, IMPLICIT UNDEFINED

* Included High-Speed threaded math library — increased program execution speed up to 200% compared to kernel math

* Was compatible with 68030 and 68040 based NeXT machines

* Was 100% source compatible with Absoft FORTRAN 77 for 680x0 and 88x00 Unix, IBM RS/6000, SPARC, Intel 386/486, and Macintosh (MPW and A/UX)

Absoft Corp

Price: $995.00 (single user license, floppy disk)
Academic Pricing available
Multi-user and network pricing also available