Sycero C Ltd, Maidstone, Kent claims that Microsoft Corp itself is very excited about its new Sycero C fourth generation language that generates C source code. Built around the Microsoft C 5.1 compiler, Sycero C enables dBase programmers to program in dBase and generate C code. The engine of Sycero C, however, is the company’s fourth generation language, the Sycero Programming Language, which enables the programmer to use dBase syntax. Sycero C costs UKP600, with a multi-user Sycero C Net at UKP900, for MS-DOS with a Unix version planned to be released at Christmas and an AS/400 version in 1990. Microsoft Ltd yesterday released the OS/2 version of its Excel spreadsheet, which has a new feature that enables the consolidation of dissimilar data. It runs on 80286 and 80386 machines with a ridiculous 2.5Mb memory, under OS/2 version 1.1 or higher. It’s UKP400 from November.
