Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!satyr!ditka!comeau From: comeau@ditka.Chicago.COM (Greg Comeau) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: What commercial end-user applications are exist NOW for the A300 Message-ID: <36592@ditka.Chicago.COM> Date: 9 Apr 91 16:21:24 GMT References: Reply-To: comeau@csanta.attmail.com (Greg Comeau) Organization: Comeau Computing Lines: 33 In article jac@gandalf.llnl.gov (James A. Crotinger) writes: >tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) writes: > >> 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 have no more information on this matter than anybody else but I would be overly shocked if Borland released an Amiga C++. Companies like them just don't work that way in general. > I haven't been on BIX for several months, but back when SAS took >over, John Toebes made it *very* clear that the Amiga line was alive >and well. Indeed, the SAS team has been handling the Amiga Lattice for the Amiga *is* still very alive and well. > Someone sent me email saying that SAS is still working on their >native code C++ environment. Wish I knew what their timescale is. Their timescale appears to be floating for quite a while. Best bet is to go with what's out there until they can produce something. >market is a lot bigger. I don't think the Amiga market could support 3 >C++ systems. [It hasn't provided much demand for a single system so far.] I think it could support 3. We're getting there. -- Comeau Computing, 91-34 120th Street, Richmond Hill, NY, 11418 Producers of Comeau C++ Here:attmail.com!csanta!comeau / BIX:comeau / CIS:72331,3421 Voice:718-945-0009 / Fax:718-441-2310