CompuServe Messages

Well, let me set a few facts straight here. SAS Institute is the parent company for Lattice (and has been for many years). All of the Amiga development has always been done by myself and more recently my staff for all releases since 3.10. Lattice simply put their name on the product after adding a few value added features (like technical support and much of the documentation) and shipped the product. In August of this year it was decided that the customers were better served by putting all development, sales, and technical support under one roof. I was able to put a staff of 4 people on the Amiga product along with 2 technical support people. Directly on the heels of the transfer, we shipped the 5.10 release of what is now called the SAS/C Development System for AmigaDOS. It includes complete support for 2.0 as well as a fully functional workbench environment – as well as the normal release of improvements to the technology and performance. These features were times to be released at the same time at the 3000 hit the streets with 2.0. As for being competitive, we really don't see that. Our product directions come from our users and an internal drive from developers at SAS Institute who use the product on the Apollo day in and day out to compile about 3.5 Millions lines of C source code every day. These developers (about 500) know that part of my department's responsibility is to serve their needs and don't ever let us rest for a moment. If you follow our conference on 'that other' online service, you will find that our directions are derived from user input and desires to push the state in the art for technology. In the past year we have also had a more important driving force – Commodore. As you should be aware, many pieces of the 2.0 operating system were built with our compiler. We are constantly responding to requests from Commodore to improve code quality in order to help preserve that valuable rom space. Feel free to comment, we really are proud of this product and want it to grow.