[geeks] DaveM: Crays up?

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> I can't say for sure about HD, but SGI and Sun both want $obscene_bignum
> for their fortran compilers.  And GNU is only Fortran 77.

$700 isn't really obscene when you consider that Microsoft gets $1079
for C++, C#, and VB.  Or, you can pay $99 for a C++ compiler that
doesn't do any optimizations.

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Jonathan Patschke
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