help w/personal iris selection

[Dave Ciemiewicz]

In article <833 at uceng.UC.EDU>, rogden at uceng.UC.EDU (rob ogden) writes:
> 
> April 3, 1989
> 
> Hello sgi group:
> 
> We are considering a personal iris. The quote we have has
> the following items:
> Software Development Pkg. $510.
> Laser Printer Support    $1000.
> Documentor's workbench    $300.
> 
> How useful are these items? We will use this machine w/FORTRAN and
> Abaqus finite element software. We will have a postscript printer,
> Apple Laserwriter NT.
> 
> Please, email me your reply.
> 
> Thank you, Rob Ogden
> 
> rogden at uceng.uc.edu
> uccba!uceng!rogden

The Software Development Pkg contains the following things:

    C compiler front-end
    Common compiler back-end tools (optimizers, code-generators, linkers)
    Standard system header and libraries
    Basic language tools (library archiver, symbol table dumpers, etc.)
    "prof" and "pixie" code profilers
    "dbx" debugger
    "edge" - a multiwindowed graphical interface to dbx

The FORTRAN option requires the Software Development Package to provide
headers, libraries, and tools which are common to the SGI compilers.  The
only things provided in the FORTRAN option are the:

    FORTRAN compiler front-end
    FORTRAN specific headers and libraries
    FORTRAN specific tools

The profilers, debuggers and other system tools work with C, FORTRAN, Pascal,
and PL/1 and so are sold only in the Software Development Package.

The Ada compiler uses some but not all of the Software Developement Tools.
For examble, Ada has it's own debugger instead of using dbx/edge but the
profiling tools prof and pixie work with Ada.

The Laser Printer Support Package contains all of the tools and drivers to
support printing on your system using a an Apple LaserWriter NT.  And so you
need it.

The Documentor's WorkBench contains the tools for document preparation using
nroff/ditroff (psroff).  You'll have to make the decision whether or not you
need this capability.
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