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From: Eef Hartman on 12 Jan 2010 10:45
In alt.os.linux.slackware Martha Adams <mhada(a)verizon.net> wrote:
> I think he's remarking on the price of compilers, and that he
> might have a point there. A missing detail is, what is today's
> price for such a compiler outside the free-software market,
> and how do such compilers compare in usefulness?

Example: Slackware includes "gfortran" (GNU) for free, but the
(much better) Intel Fortran compiler is:
Intel� Fortran Compiler Professional Edition for Linux
New Full Product: $899
Support renewal: $360
(and you CAN download it for free for evaluation or NON-commercial
usage - the latter means you can NOT use it for anything you get
money for, even if you're not selling your software, when you need
the compiler FOR your work, you have to pay for it).
Luckily we here got a Campus License for it....

> Re that Borland Pascal compiler, does that run in an 8-bit or
> a 16-bit machine? What OS does it run in?

Essentially the last (ever) version of Borland Pascal was a
MS-Dos (5/6) /Windows 3.x application, that is: pure 16-bit O/S.
It's been a long time, but I _think_ it could generate i386 instructions
for the 32-bit mode of Windows 3.1x
Borland Pascal 7.0 was released in 1992 or so, long before Windows 95

For the Linux platform there is an open source port:
Free Pascal (www.freepascal.org), of which just THIS month version
2.4.0 has been released.
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