Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: Hank Dietz <hankd@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu>
Subject: Re: Compiler Vendor
Summary: Originally Compass, but heavily modified
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 18:39:44 GMT
Message-ID: <3hu3in$s5p@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>

In article <D3r8ry.LEx@cs.dal.ca> edemaine@ug.cs.dal.ca (Erik Demaine) writes:
>John W Bottoms (jbottoms@world.std.com) wrote:
>: Can someone tell me the vendor of the compiler used by Thinking
>: Machines or did they develop their own?
>
>For the CM5, CMFortran (as the name indicates) is definately developed
>by Thinking Machines.  I'm pretty sure the other compilers are also
>self-created.

Well, not quite.  My understanding is that many of the Fortran compilers
out there, most notably both TMC's CMFortran and MasPar's MPF, are derived
from the old Compass Fortran compiler...  although there might not be
much of the original compiler there to point at.  You don't hear much about
Compass these days...  I believe the company went under some years ago.

							-hankd


