Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: What commercial end-user applications are exist NOW for the A300 Message-ID: <20417@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 5 Apr 91 21:18:20 GMT References: Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 31 In article tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) writes: >jac@gandalf.llnl.gov (James A. Crotinger) writes: >> Does anyone know if the arrival of Comeau C++ for AmigaDOS has derailed >> SAS's plan to market a new version of their C++ product? They had been >> planning to release a native C++ compiler (one which compiled directly >> to machine code) sometime in '91. >> > >We in our Amiga Group have been wondering if SAS would drop all C marketing >efforts for the Amiga since they apparently have foresaken MS-DOS. And, >someone spread a rumor that Borland "Vaporware" International was serious >about offering their C++ to Amiganoids. Any comments? I doubt it. When they spun off Lattice again (they bought it a few years ago, and it had turned unprofitable in the PC market), the one thing they decided to take in-house was the Amiga C compiler. This should indicate something about their interest and profitability in the market. Also, they needed a compiler group anyways since the main reason for having the group is to support the same version of C on all the different machines they produce the SAS tools for. The Amiga stuff is gravy (some of the work they do is amiga-specific, but some applies to all their C versions (like global optimization), and some applies to all their 680x0 versions (like back-end optimizations)). -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion. Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "To program a million-line operating system is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult." (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)