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- From: Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@sdd.hp.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga & SAS/C
- Date: 21 Jan 1996 18:38:27 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
- Message-ID: <4du173$84b@news.sdd.hp.com>
- References: <4d0f1p$d7v@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <4d12t0$9rn@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de> <317281884wnr@innov.demon.co.uk> <DL6JwG.MJM@unx.sas.com> <1162.6592T1274T441@mbox3.swipnet.se> <oj6d98dzdmf.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com>
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- koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) wrote:
-
- >roland.bengtsson@mbox3.swipnet.se (Roland Bengtsson) wrote:
- >
- >> Any chance that SAS will return to Amiga development, or at least sell
- >> your source and let another company continue the development? If not,
- >
- >I would seriously doubt SAS would sell their source.
-
- I can take that further: when asked directly, the answer was an
- unqualified "no." It's not so much that SAS are hedging thier bets in
- the Amiga market, although that probably plays a small part. The code
- for the SAS/C compiler contains a lot of proprietary code that is used in
- thier compilers for OTHER platforms. These other compilers are thier
- main tools in developing their main money-maker, mega-expensive database
- tools for mega-expensive hardware. To ask them to relinquish the tools
- they use to keep thier competitive edge is unreasonable. They won't do
- it, and I can't blame them for that.
-
- In the same conversation, the idea of LISCENSING the compiler to an
- interested developer was NOT put down so hard. I must hasten to add,
- though, that I was not talking to the company president, so this falls in
- the grey area between "fact" and "rumor." :-)
-
- >I think the only real chance is for AT to give SAS a bunch of cold,
- >hard, cash to fund development of a SAS PowerAmiga compiler. I would
- >sure like to see this happen.
-
- You never know... :-)
-
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