Microsoft Visual Studio Developer Environment

All programs are intended to be run as application on a PC using the Windows operating system (XP or later). The code was written in FORTRAN 90/95 and compiled with the INTEL Visual FORTRAN compiler integrated in the Microsoft Visual Studio Developer Environment. 

Figure 1 shows a timeline with the evolution of our software and main milestones. The first versions of our software were based on Orbix (C+-b) on Irix, Solaris and Windows NT 4. Orbix is a commercial product and does not provide any way to customize it. EHie to this, we ported our software to TAO 1.1.16 (2001). The development environment used on Windows was Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0. 

The amount and variety of software produced since the invention of the computer in the 1940 s is truly phenomenal. World Wide Web browsers, e-mail, and personal productivity software (such as Microsoft Office) are used by people at home and at work. Operating systems, middleware, and integrated development environments (such as Microsoft s Visual Studio) are used by professional programmers to produce new computer applications every day. Web development systems are used to produce Web services that support applications on desktops and mobile devices. 

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