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- From: walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
- Subject: Re: The guys at SAS
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- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 14:20:15 GMT
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- In article <2ms1jv$igh@gjalp.ifi.uio.no>, janmo@ifi.uio.no (Jan Eric Mortensen) writes:
- |> I'm curious, how did SAS get involved with the Amiga and not the PC? AFAIK there is no PC version
- |> of the compiler(?)
- |> And do you make anything else for the Amiga?
-
- Way back in the mists of time, Lattice, Inc. wrote a portable C
- compiler. SAS Institute needed a C compiler for the IBM mainframes
- (MVS and CMS) and no then-available commercial compiler could do
- the job. We entered into a contract with Lattice to port their
- compiler to the mainframe. A couple of years later, we bought
- Lattice, Inc., which DID have a PC compiler marketed under its
- own name.
-
- All compiler development (and some of the Lattice developers) was
- moved to Cary, NC from the Chicago area. John Toebes, a SAS
- employee and Amiga aficianado, took over development of the Amiga
- compiler in time for version 4.0 of Lattice C. Lattice continued
- to handle development of the non-compiler tools in the package
- (debugger, editor, make utility, etc.) and to handle marketing and
- technical support.
-
- John and another developer also did Version 5.0 and 5.02 in the
- same manner. After version 5.02 was released, the responsibility for
- the entire product was moved to Cary and John was given a four-person
- development group. This group included Steve Krueger from Lattice
- and myself. Steve had worked on the non-compiler parts of the product
- at Lattice, and I had been an Amiga developer for years with the
- Software Distillery. The Institute was now developing all parts of
- the product, but technical support and marketing were still done
- by Lattice. With this configuration, we released 5.04 and 5.05.
-
- After 5.05 was released, the entire responsibility for the Amiga
- product was transferred to SAS Institute, including marketing and
- technical support. The name of the product was officially changed
- to SAS/C and we came out with Versions 5.10 and 5.10a.
-
- John left the Institute at about this time to pursue other
- interests, and I took over the Amiga product. Our group was
- moved into a new division that includes a testing group that
- supports our efforts. With this combination, we have produced
- version 5.10b, the V5 ANSI-compliant libraries, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3,
- 6.50, and 6.51.
-
- The PC Lattice compiler lives on as an in-house cross-compiler,
- used to port the SAS system to Intel platforms. It is probably
- still available for purchase, but it's pretty outdated by now.
- The Lattice mainframe compiler is now sold as SAS/C for the
- mainframe.
-
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