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From: jmeissen@ogicse.ogi.edu (John Meissen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SAS/C Compiler Version 5.10 for AmigaDOS Upgrade
Keywords: In response to my previous posting, and further replies.
Message-ID: <11731@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Date: 28 Aug 90 18:47:50 GMT
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Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <13385@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hutsonda@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dwayne Hutson) writes:
>....................  Besides SAS was according to the letter the original
>writer of Lattice C, so they did play a role before.

Now I really can't wait to see the letter! The original author of Lattice
C was Francis Lynch, one of the 3 founders of Lattice, Inc. The compiler
was ported to many platforms at Lattice, including the Amiga (by myself,
oh so many years ago).

The SAS Institute licensed the source to the C compiler and ported it to
the 370. John Toebes, who is now in charge of the Amiga (and all 68000
versions) did the code generator for that implementation. They may also
have done an Apollo port.

Some time after the initial Amiga port, SAS acquired Lattice. Up until
that time their relationship with Lattice was strictly as a licensee.

There is no doubt that SAS has applied considerable technical effort to the
Amiga C compiler, and they have made significant improvements. The current
code probably looks considerably different from the original source.
However, they certainly weren't the original writers of the compiler.


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