XPost: comp.lang.fortran, comp.lang.c++   
   From: already5chosen@yahoo.com   
      
   On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:46:43 -0600   
   Lynn McGuire  wrote:   
      
   > On 1/27/2026 12:45 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   > > Lawrence D’Oliveiro  schrieb:     
   > >> On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:47:33 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   > >>     
   > >>> There is a story where he wrote a Fortran compiler, which failed   
   > >>> tests and was therefore not accepted, and he refused to fix the   
   > >>> bugs.     
   > >>   
   > >> Who was dumb enough to buy that?     
   > >    
   > > They didn't, it was not accepted.   
   > >    
   > > Unfortunately, the story itself seems to have vanished from the   
   > > Internet, or at least I cannot find it with Google any more.     
   >    
   > If I remember correctly, Microsoft licensed somebody else's Fortran   
   > 90 compiler and relabeled it.   
   >    
   > Lynn   
   >    
      
   There is a big chance that you don't remember correctly.   
   At least it is different, not to say opposite, from the story that I   
   read in other places.   
   They say that when Microsoft found out that support for F90 is   
   necessary for continuation of their Fortran business then they   
   decided that their compilers stuff has more important things to   
   do. So they sold their compiler sources and Powerstation brand to   
   Digital that later became Compaq and later yet before merger with HP   
   sold it to Intel where it either replaced Intel's own Fortran compiler   
   or was merged with it. The last part of the story is not conclusive.   
      
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