Microsoft FORTRAN
A FORTRAN 77 compiler by the Microsoft Corporation that was originally delivered for DOS but later also supported OS/2 and in a more limited fashion MS Windows 3.x. Initially based on an older CP/M FORTRAN implementation by the same company the original DOS compiler was quite popular in the mid 80's until faster and more complete implementations such as the Watcom F77 compilers started to replace it in the marketplace. The company introduced FORTRAN 4.1 in the spring of 1988 and it was the first version of the toolkit to support both 16 bit OS/2 and DOS application generation, albeit in text mode only.
FORTRAN 5.0 was released in the summer of 1989 and it added the ability to create applications for the Presentation Manager, FORTRAN 5.1 was introduced a year later shipped with some limited Windows 3 support. In addition to the Fortran77 standard the compiler comes with some support for IBM VS FORTRAN and DEC VAX Fortran extensions . The company also supplied an optional IMSL Fortran Numerical Library.
Note that by the time version 5.1 hit the ground Microsoft was no longer calling the product using the traditional all caps FORTRAN77 naming convention, but simply Microsoft Fortran 5.1. This product was discontinued in 1993.
Versions
- DOS
- 1985: Microsoft FORTRAN 3.2
- 1986: Microsoft FORTRAN 3.3
- 1987: Microsoft FORTRAN 4.0
- 1987: Microsoft FORTRAN 4.01
- DOS & OS/2
- 1988: Microsoft FORTRAN 4.1 (for OS/2 1.0)
- 1989: Microsoft FORTRAN 5.0 (for OS/2 1.1, DOS 3.0)
- 1990: Microsoft FORTRAN 5.1
- 1991: Microsoft IMSL for Fortran 5.1
License
- Discontinued software released under a commercial license
Author
- Microsoft Corporation
Weblinks
- Microsoft KB article 27780: How FORTRAN Stores Two-Dimensional Arrays in Memory
- Microsoft KB article 67098: FIX: PAUSE Command with Input Redirection in FORTRAN