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Aztec C

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In 1989 Thomas Fenwick left to work for Microsoft, and James Goodnow worked on Aztec C occasionally but was pursuing other projects outside the company and eventually left the company altogether. Chris Macey returned as a consultant but eventually left to become chief scientist for another company.
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Manx was started by Harry Suckow, with partners Thomas Fenwick, and James Goodnow II, the two principal developers. They were all working together at another company at the time. Suckow had started several companies of his own anticipating the impending growth of the personal computer market. A
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had targeted competitors for their C compiler and Aztec C was being pushed-out of the general IBM PC compatible compiler market, followed by competition with
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Throughout the 1990s they continued to make their Aztec C compiler. As their market share dropped, they tried to make the move to specializing in
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In the end, Jeff Davis and Mike Spille helped Harry Suckow keep the company going before Suckow finally closed it. Suckow is still the
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committee but left shortly after. He also fixed numerous bugs in the Aztec C after Chris Macey and Thomas Fenwick left the company.
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demand came for compilers first and he disengaged himself from the other companies to pursue Manx and Aztec C.
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Another developer, Chris Macey, assisted them momentarily with 80XX development, apart from other areas.
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Encyclopedia of Microcomputers: Volume 11 - Management Studies to Multiprocessing and Multitasking
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One of the main reasons for Aztec C's early success was the floating point support in the
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At least two free Internet distributions exist for native Aztec C compilers for the
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Many developers used the Aztec C compiler until it became operationally extinct.
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This article is about the computer software. For the small aircraft, see
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Kent, Allen; Williams, James G. (25 November 1992).
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Index

Piper PA-23 § Aztec
Developer(s)
Type
Compiler
C programming language
compiler
CP/M-80
MS-DOS
Apple II
Apple DOS
ProDOS
Commodore 64
Macintosh
Amiga
Atari ST
Shrewsbury, New Jersey
C programming language
CP/M
Apple II
IBM PC compatibles
Macintosh
Z80
Apple II
ANSI C
ANSI
Microsoft
Apple's MPW C
Lattice C
Amiga
embedded systems development

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