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We have a donated 310 system with Xenix 3.x, 512 Kb memory and 20 M disk.

The main application we have requires FORTRAN and/or BASIC
compilers/interpreters. We managed to get these from Intel, but then
the system crashed really badly. We had installed these but had not
yet used them before the crash. We had to shelve the project since the
hardware was out, and we were not having much luck keeping it running
once it came back from the 'shop'. Finally the (all of them) problems
were fixed, but we were onto other things by then.

Now we are trying to restart the project (controlling a milling
machine), and we reinstalled the FORTRAN and BASIC code. (Since we
have only 512K we couldn't install new Xenix 4.x) .But the FORTRAN
process kills itself (fc command, is this copy protection?) and the
BASIC interpreter reports all kinds of errors (such as an illegal stty
option, which makes it look like this wasn't even supoosed to run on
this system). We are trying to contact Intel, but have to go through
a local distributer, so we are not getting anywhere very fast since we
are all playing telephone tag.

So... anyone have any ideas. We would even consider totally new (or
updated) compilers. Any suggestions for such. I would gladly write new
code in C, but there are many existing programs in FORTRAN and
Applesoft.  Any pointers to compilers or suggestion for things to
check? Any help would be most appreciated.

Does anyone from Intel read this group? We are trying to use your
products, but .... Suggestions for products or someone to contact.

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Thomas Hern
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Bowling Green State Univ.				   CSNET: hern@BGSU
Bowling Green OH 43403				ARPA: hern%bgsu@csnet-relay
419-372-7450 				UUCP: cbosgd!osu-eddie!bgsuvax!hern