Help to open-source SAS/C

[olsen]

I ask about that somewhere else.
Try maybe to contact Jim Cooper, Steve Krueger, Douglas Walker they may know if it's possible.
They still work at SAS, they still have their compiler but it is used for internal project only so I guess it will never be open sourced.

Kamelito

https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/2nekbp/any_oldtime_amiga_users_from_19851990/

Right now I would settle for the option to license it for commercial use again. SAS/C is crucially important for the AmigaOS 2.x/3.x platform because it is the best-integrated 'C' development environment for it.

Code quality apparently leaves something to be desired still, but the alternatives are very scarce (who's got a working source level debugger and a profiler?).

[olsen]

not sure of their budget. but doesnt the multibillion company, you may be referring to, rather go by the name of "SAP"? however, software by any actually operating company may be beyond any such "pricetag". id love to be wrong..

You're going to love this then

It is indeed SAS and not SAP. The compiler identifies itself as SAS/C when you run it.

SAS Institute acquired the Lattice 'C' compiler back in 1987, if I remember correctly, so as to make their software more portable across different computer platforms. SAS Institute no longer had to rely upon 3rd party software for that purpose.

Lattice 'C' was the first commercially available 'C' software development solution which ran natively on the Amiga operating system. After the acquisition the product name was changed to SAS/C (version 5). If I remember correctly, product support for SAS/C on the Amiga ceased in 1995. You could still buy the compiler at that time, while SAS Institute was liquidating the available stock.