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! 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. 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. 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.
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