mikem@otc.OZ (Michael Mowbray) (11/21/86)
I heard a vague rumor that some firm was selling C++ for IBM-PC and/or
Macintosh. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
Thanks in advance.
Mike Mowbray
Systems Development
Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia)
UUCP: {seismo,mcvax}!otc.oz!mikem ACSnet: mikem@otc.ozminer@ulowell.UUCP (Richard Miner) (11/30/86)
In article <44@otc.OZ> mikem@otc.OZ (Michael Mowbray) writes: >I heard a vague rumor that some firm was selling C++ for IBM-PC and/or >Macintosh. Can anyone confirm or deny this? I am not sure who currently has such products, but I talk to Jim Goodenow of Manx at a recent Amiga developers conference and he said that they had recently purchased a C++ licence from AT&T. For those who may not know, Manx has a high quality C compiler running on most popular PCs, Aztec C86 on MeS-DOS and other environments on 80x86 PC's, Aztec C68K for the AMIGA and other 68k workstations + the Apple MAC PC, also for 65xx based machines. I would imagine that if they get serious about C++ that once they get it up on one environment they would port it to all the rest. I think that the first target machine the the Amiga because it is what Jim said its what he does all of his development on, I would imagine others would follow soon. If I hear more or ,since I am an Amiga Aztec C beta tester, If I recieve a beta of a C++ compiler I will post a note.
news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Usenet netnews) (11/30/86)
Organization : California Institute of Technology Keywords: From: jon@oddhack.Caltech.Edu (Jon Leech) Path: oddhack!jon In article <802@ulowell.UUCP> miner@ulowell.UUCP (Richard Miner) writes: >In article <44@otc.OZ> mikem@otc.OZ (Michael Mowbray) writes: >>I heard a vague rumor that some firm was selling C++ for IBM-PC and/or >>Macintosh. Can anyone confirm or deny this? > There are several companies advertising C++ for PCs in BYTE. If I recall correctly (not having a BYTE handy), Lifeboat and Oasys are two of them. -- Jon Leech (jon@csvax.caltech.edu || ...seismo!cit-vax!jon) Caltech Computer Science Graphics Group __@/
gary@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad) (12/01/86)
In article <44@otc.OZ> mikem@otc.OZ (Michael Mowbray) writes: >I heard a vague rumor that some firm was selling C++ for IBM-PC and/or >Macintosh. Can anyone confirm or deny this? Yes, I have a copy of C++ from Lifeboat, ported by Glockenspiel, with AT&T release notes (!) on my desk. Unfortunately, it has been sitting on my desk for a month now because it only runs on version 4.0 of the Microsoft C compiler and we only have version 3.x right now. Waiting for an update... Gary