What commercial end-user applications are exist NOW for the A300

[Randell Jesup]

In article <ocRwZ1w161w at nstar.rn.com> tbissett at nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) writes:
>jac at 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)).

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Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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